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Transcending Gender: Female Non-Buddhists’ Experiences of the Vipassanā Meditation Retreat

Religions, 2018
Female non-Buddhists have been writing detailed descriptions of their personal experiences in vipassanā meditation retreats since the 1960s. These memoirists relate to the English-speaking world their experience of the retreat process and self ...
Brooke Schedneck
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The Mandala State in Pre-British Sri Lanka: The Cosmographical Terrain of Contested Sovereignty in the Theravada Buddhism Tradition

, 2014
What I do here is to explore the aesthetic reproduction of Buddhist sovereignty in pre-British Sri Lanka. My argument points to an inherent tension between the virtual sovereignty that characterizes the claims that Buddhist kingship makes, and the ...
de Silva-Wijeyeratne, R.
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H. B. Aronson. Love and Sympathy in Theravada Buddhism

, 1981
Bareau André. H. B. Aronson. Love and Sympathy in Theravada Buddhism. In: Revue de l'histoire des religions, tome 198, n°4, 1981. pp.
Bareau, André
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Theravada Buddhism, Identity, and Cultural Continuity in Jinghong, Xishuangbanna

, 2015
This ethnographic field study focuses upon the relationship between the urban Jinghong and surrounding rural Dai population of lay people, as well as a few individuals from other ethnic groups, and Theravada Buddhism.
Granderson, James H.
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Theravada Buddhism and Dai Identity in Jinghong, Xishuangbanna

, 2015
This ethnographic field project focused upon the relationship between the urban Jinghong and surrounding rural Dai population of lay people, as well as a few individuals from other ethnic groups, and Theravada Buddhism.
Granderson, James
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Socially Engaged Buddhism of Theravada Monastic Sanga Community: A Case Study of the Bulang Buddhist Community in Laoman'e Village, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, China

Journal of International Buddhist Studies
This study investigates the socially engaged Buddhism of the Bulang people in the Laoman’e village in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, People’s Republic of China.
Yan Wenen
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The Doctrinal Basis for the Prohibition of Abortion in Theravāda and Tibetan Buddhism [PDF]

International Multidisciplinary Journal of Pure Life
SUBJECT & OBJECTIVES: This study examines the widespread claim that Theravāda and Tibetan Buddhist traditions contain sufficient textual ambiguity to allow a “middle-way, pro-choice” position, particularly during early pregnancy. Its primary objective is
Mahdi Honarjoo, Mohsen Honarjoo
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The Problems of Free Will and Moral Responsibility in Buddhist Ethics

RUDN Journal of Philosophy
At the end of the 20th century, a discipline of Buddhist ethics was formed in English-speaking countries, within the framework of which a community of closely interacting researchers is engaged in the comprehension and systematization of ethical ...
Vlada A. Volkova
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South Asian Drumming beyond Tala: The Problem with “Meter” in Buddhist Sri Lanka [PDF]

Analytical Approaches to World Music, 2018
In two conjoined articles, I argue that Sri Lanka—long passed over in ethnomusicology classes as one proceeds from India to Indonesia or vice-versa—is worthy of gaining a strong foothold in our field.
Sykes, Jim
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Northeast Thai-Lao Theravada Buddhism Peripheral, Central, or Varietal?

, 2017
The Thai-Lao population of Northeast Thailand, twenty-two million in a national population of sixty-eight million, live a paradox. While they are the Kingdom’s single, largest ethnic group, they are an unvoiced minority subjected to a documented history ...
Lefferts, Leedom, Leedom Lefferts
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