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The changing Buddhist landscape: Anxiety and the development of Pure Land Buddhism in medieval China

The Australian Journal of Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 280-291, August 2025.
Abstract The introduction of Pure Land practice and belief into medieval China changed the Buddhist landscape. Pure Land Buddhism offered a new pathway and new methods for achieving enlightenment. However, these changes were also a significant source of anxiety among the early community of Pure Land practitioners.
Kendall R. Marchman
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Mystic doubt: In search of pure consciousness

Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 36, Issue 1, Spring 2025.
AbstractTranscendental Meditation (TM) holds that the essence of reality is “pure consciousness.” This piece contrasts three interpretations of their meditative trance: (i) TM doctrine, and (ii) scientific physicalism, (iii) with my own meditative experience.
Olof Ohlson
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Nature and Role of ‘Guru’ in Ancient India and its Relevance to the Modern Education System

Journal of Asia Entrepreneurship and Sustainability
The two important pillars of the education system are the teacher and the student. One is the giver of knowledge and the other is the receiver. No matter how interesting, scientific and up-to-date the teaching content, curriculum, teaching methods are ...
Dr. Bratati Chakraborty
doaj   +1 more source

Sadrsya and Mimesis A Comparative Study of Indian Theosophy and Greek Philosophy of Art with Emphasis on Plotinus’ Views [PDF]

حکمت و فلسفه, 2010
East theosophy and west philosophy have some foundatumental topics in common. One of these topics is the unity of existence which is one of the main subjects in Upanishads and appears frequently in Greek philosophy, especially the views of thinkers like ...
hasan bolkhari
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Is There a Root of Being? Indic Philosophies and the Parmenidean Problem

Religions, 2023
This article is a survey of various philosophical schools, focusing primarily on South Asian ones, and how they address the problem of being and nonbeing.
Winfried Corduan
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Designing a meditation module to affect etiological and preventive factors in primary hypertensive patients—A pilot study

Physiological Reports, Volume 13, Issue 3, February 2025.
Abstract The aim of the present pilot study is to design, validate, and check the feasibility and efficacy of the designed meditation module on etiological and preventive factors in primary hypertensive patients (PHP). The systematic and detailed meditation module was formulated to prevent the complications of hypertension.
Kapila Goswami Sharma, S. D. Manjula, Shobha U. Kamath, M. Mukhyaprana Prabhu, M. G. Ramesh Babu, Ujjal Bose, K. Vasanthalaxmi   +6 more
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La educación en las Upanishads

Revista Española de Pedagogía
Doctor Font y Puig continues his study of the Hindu sources with a clear, precise design of historifying the most important pedagogical sources. So he does an analytical study of the Upanishads pointing out some apparently contradictory but easily ...
Pedro Font Puig
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श्रीगंगा का प्राचीन साहित्यिक एवं धार्मिक महत्त्व

Dev Sanskriti: Interdisciplinary International Journal, 2017
प्रस्तुत अनुसंधान का उद्देश्य गंगा की महिमा के विषय में ज्ञान प्राप्त करने और उसकी ऐतिहासिक एवं सांस्कृतिक पृष्ठभूमि को समझने का प्रयास है। भारतीय जन मानस के लिए गंगा भारत की प्राचीन संस्कृति और सभ्यता की प्रतीक रही है। अपने स्वरूप व प्रवाह में निरंतर ...
Devendra Kumar , Ravindra Kumar
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Svāhā in the Yagya: Meaning and Importance

Interdisciplinary Journal of Yagya Research, 2021
Svāhā is the word generally used in the Yagya when an offering is made to the fire. Generally in Yagya offering is made to the deity with deity Mantra; in this procedure, after the mantra is chanted, it is followed by word ‘Svāhā’ and ‘Idam-Na-Mama ...
Jitendra Kumar Mishra
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Development and Validation of Viable Model and Measure of Yogic Leadership: A Novel and Holistic Paradigm

Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.
Despite yoga’s potential to foster organizational excellence, the intersection of leadership and yoga has received limited scholarly attention. Therefore, we aimed to address this gap by developing and validating the yogic leadership scale (YLS). This study was conducted in three rigorous phases.
Neha P. Sangodkar, Rudra B. Bhandari, Rajneesh Choubisa   +2 more
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