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Du karma aux planètes

Moussons, 2010
In Arakan, sickness-related conceptions and therapeutic practices issuing from Theravada Buddhism, astrology, spirits cult and medicine form a meaningful and hierarchical whole.
Céline Coderey
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The Stoicism of Śāntideva: Comparisons between Stoic and Buddhist philosophy

Theoria, Volume 90, Issue 4, Page 377-399, August 2024.
Abstract Recently, due to various geopolitical events, a movement for 'decolonisation' has taken shape. In essence, this movements seeks to right the wrongs of Western colonialism. This desire has been expressed in many diverse ways depending on the context.
Lee Clarke
wiley   +1 more source

The role of religion in the longer-range future, April 6, 7, and 8, 2006 [PDF]

, 2006
This repository item contains a single issue of the Pardee Conference Series, a publication series that began publishing in 2006 by the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. This conference that took place
Aldrich, Sophie Lei, Ammerman, Nancy, Berger, Peter L., Buultjens, Ralph, Connor, Walter, Craig-Hart, Patti, Cramer, Constance S., Drill, Craig, Friedman, Benjamin, Fromkin, David, Gingerich, Owen, Glashow, Sheldon, Gross, Irena, Hammond, Norman, Harper, Charles, Hart, Douglas M., Katz, Steven, Kimball, Roger, Kornberg, Hans, Sir, Kramer, Jane, Maitre, H. Joachim, Marsh, Chistopher, Mayers, David, McGahan, Anita, Meyer, Michael, Prothero, Stephen, Simon, Steven, Smith, Michael J., Talbot, Phillips, Tracy, James, Watts, John, Wegter-McNelly, Kirk   +31 more
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White shirts as sacred amulets: “World‐making” and “self‐making” during the Burmese political festival

Ethos, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 186-205, June 2024.
Abstract Drawing upon Stanley J. Tambiah's idea of “world conquerors” and “world renouncers,” this article examines the Burmese political festival (nainganyei pwe) as a ritual, affective, and material space where former political prisoners reinterpret violence and engage in forms of collective and personal “world‐making.” The article focuses on one ...
Seinenu M. Thein‐Lemelson
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A Critical Comparison between Nāma-Rūpa and Cartesian Dualism: Theravāda Buddhist Anattā as a Critique of Descartes’ Cogito Ergo Sum

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This research article aims to present a critical study on the comparison between the concepts of nāma-rūpa and Cartesian dualism. Nāma-rūpa is a human metaphysical and epistemological concept in Theravāda Buddhism that divides the human self into non ...
Galuh Nur Fattah, Tri Saputra Medhacitto, Gonalagoda Nanda   +2 more
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Silent suasions: interpersonal mediation in Thai meditation

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 30, Issue S1, Page 61-76, April 2024.
Abstract Discourse is the typical modus operandi for persuasive practices, but silence also has an important role to play in many religious contexts. In this essay, I examine how silence works as a mechanism of persuasion in Thailand, where Buddhist logics of meditation permeate social life.
Julia Cassaniti
wiley   +1 more source

On Buddhism, Divination and the Worldly Arts: Textual Evidence from the Theravāda Tradition [PDF]

, 2014
This essay attends to the sticky web of indigenous terminology concerning divination and other so-called “mundane” or “worldly” arts, focusing primarily upon Buddhist canonical texts preserved in Pāli, augmented by references to commentarial and ...
Fiordalis, David
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An Interview with Ajahn Jotipālo: Meditation Leads to Experiential Understanding That What We Think of As Ourselves is Actually Stressful, Unstable & not Really Ourselves

Spirituality Studies, 2019
In the interview with Martin Dojčár, Ajahn Jotipālo discusses a set of issues concerning monastic life in the strict Thai forest tradition of Theravada Buddhism along with fundamental Buddhist spiritual practices and his views on interfaith dialogue ...
Martin Dojčár
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Lists as dynamic devices in early Buddhist doctrine and textual tradition [PDF]

, 2013
This article discusses the origin of the Abhidharma genre of Buddhist literature in the Indian context of an oral religious tradition, and shows how the textual format of the Abhidharma texts, in their turn, shaped the development of Buddhist ...
Dessein, Bart
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From Marginalization to Localization: Chinese Mahāyāna Buddhism’s Adaptive Strategies in Theravāda Myanmar

Religions
Tension between the Mahāyāna and Theravāda Buddhist schools has persisted since early Buddhist times and remains a complex issue. However, recent decades have seen growing joint religious activities and cultural exchanges between followers of these ...
Tzu-Lung Chiu
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