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Teaching Buddhism in Britain's schools : redefining the insider role [PDF]
, 2010 Dialogical approaches to Religious Education in Britain’s schools have opened the subject to input by Buddhist insiders more than ever in its history although shortcomings remain in the way Buddhism is portrayed in the classroom.
Thanissaro, Phra Nicholas +1 more
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Between Buddhism and Science, Between Mind and Body
Religions, 2014 Buddhism has been seen, at least since the Theravāda reform movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as particularly compatible with Western science.
Geoffrey Samuel
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What Is a Good Death in South Asia? A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis
Journal of Nursing Scholarship, Volume 57, Issue 4, Page 653-677, July 2025.ABSTRACT Introduction To deliver palliative care, it is important to understand what a “good death” means to the relevant people. Such studies have mostly occurred in high‐income settings that usually live by Western ideals. What matters to people is likely to vary across different regions of the world, influenced by multiple factors. Although there is
Lihini Wijeyaratne +5 more
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, 2010 Did a separate Theravada school of Buddhism actually exist as a discernible entity before the modern period? Can we talk about Theravada Buddhism as a field of study or as a religion bounded by a distinct set of texts, rituals, beliefs, and institutions?
Justin McDaniel
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Temenos, 2016 Mindfulness-based practice methods are entering the Western cultural mainstream as institutionalised approaches in healthcare, education, and other public spheres. The Buddhist roots of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and comparable mindfulness-
Ville Husgafvel
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Non-Violence, Asceticism, and the Problem of Buddhist Nationalism
Genealogy, 2020 Contemporary Buddhist violence against minority Muslims in Myanmar is rightfully surprising: a religion with its particular moral philosophies of non-violence and asceticism and with its functional polytheism in practice should not generate genocidal ...
Yvonne Chiu
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Journal of Consumer Behaviour, Volume 24, Issue 3, Page 1300-1326, May 2025.ABSTRACT Despite extensive research on the influence of religion on pro‐environmental behavior, little attention has been paid to the role of religious epics—that is, narratives that embody the core beliefs and moral values of religious traditions—as a mechanism for promoting such behavior.
Manish Das +4 more
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Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, Volume 51, Issue 2, April 2025.ABSTRACT Numerous studies have shown that mindfulness is positively associated with relationship and sexual satisfaction. However, most have examined the benefits of intrapersonal or trait mindfulness, rather than directly investigating interpersonal mindfulness or considering polyvagal theory.
Claudia Dias Martins +2 more
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Significance of Doctrinal Purity: Burmese Monastic Regulatory System (Vinicchaya Trial)
Journal of International Buddhist StudiesBuddhism in Myanmar today may be characterized as conservative. Among many Buddhist schools across the world, only the teachings maintained by the Theravada sect are accepted as authentic teachings in Myanmar.
Yan Naing Linn
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Philosophy Compass, Volume 20, Issue 3, March 2025.ABSTRACT Many traditions and worldviews have held that patience is a virtue—a habit that is morally praiseworthy. In this essay we orient readers to recent work on what patience is and what patience does. What are the distinctive markers of the disposition of patience? And why have people regarded it as so important to living well?
Anne Jeffrey, Timothy Pawl
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