Buddhism

ON NOT GETTING WHAT WE WANT AND LEARNING TO BE GRATEFUL FOR WHAT WE HAVE BY CAROL P. CHRIST

by Feminism and Religion

Originally posted on the Feminism and Religion project

Many women’s dreams have not been realized. How do we come to terms with this thealogically?

Although I am... more Many women’s dreams have not been realized. How do we come to terms with this thealogically?

Although I am as neurotic as the next person, I am also really wonderful—intelligent, emotionally available, beautiful (if I do say so myself), sweet, caring, and bold. I love to dance, swim, and think about the meaning of life. I passionately wanted to find someone with whom to share my life. I did everything I could to make that happen—including years of therapy and even giving up my job and moving half way around the world when I felt I had exhausted the possibilities at home.

A Note on Saḷāyatanas in Pāli Nikāyas

by Giuliano Giustarini

Death of the Mind Doesn’t Mean Death of the Soul: Vilém Flusser on Wittgenstein’s Semantic Buddhism and the Grace of Doubt

by Wanderley Dias da Silva

While philosophers grapple with uncertainties, fools strike by surprise ― Henrique de Sousa Filho While philosophers grapple with uncertainties, fools strike by surprise ― Henrique de Sousa Filho

"The Authority of the Buddha: The limits of knowledge in medieval Indian Buddhist epistemology"

by Richard Payne

Acta Orientalia Vilnensia 11.1 (2010): 13–36. special issue on "Through the looking-glass of the Buddha-mind: Strategies of cognition in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism"

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Myth in an antimythical environment; the case of Buddhism

by Michel Clasquin-Johnson

in Clasquin, M., Ferreira, J., Marais, D. & Sadowsky, R. (eds.) 1993. Myth and Interdisciplinary Research. Pretoria: Unisa. pp. 66-81.

Buddhism and Unemployment - a conceptual reappraisal of social classification systems

by Michel Clasquin-Johnson

in Vorster, W. S. (ed.) 1992. On being unemployed and religious. Pretoria: Unisa. pp. 96-106.

Bibliography on Buddhism in South Africa

by Michel Clasquin-Johnson

See also the copy at the Journal of Global Buddhism: http://www.globalbuddhism.org/Bibliography%20-%20Buddhism%20in%20South%20Africa.htm

This bibliography covers mostly the period from1970, when Buddhism first became a visible movement in South African... more This bibliography covers mostly the period from1970, when Buddhism first became a visible movement in South African society and non-polemic material started to appear in South African publications, up to the year 2002. Researchers interested in earlier views and developments should consult Wratten’s 1995 thesis (see within), which deals with the earlier period in great detail.

Brûe en slootgrawe. Die eeuelange gesprek tussen die Christendom en die Boeddhisme

by Michel Clasquin-Johnson

Unpublished. This is the original version, in Afrikaans: A shortened, English tranlation was published in Acta Theologia in 2009 as "The centuries-old dialogue between Buddhism and Christianity".

This article examines the pre-history of today's dialogue between Buddhists and Christians. Contrary to what one might... more This article examines the pre-history of today's dialogue between Buddhists and Christians. Contrary to what one might think, pre-modern Europeans did have some understanding of Buddhism, however limited and distorted it might have been. Asians during the same period had a far better chance of understanding Christianity, because of the widespread presence of the Nestorian Church from Arabia to China. We do have evidence that interaction between Buddhists and Christians lead to some creative synthesis between the two.

Pratytiasamutpada, La Dottrina buddhista della produzione condizionata.

by marco pucciarini

The truth of the body: the liberating role of physical (and mental) boundaries in asubhabhāvanā

by Giuliano Giustarini

Strange Entanglements: Buddhism and Quantum Theory in Contemporary Nonfiction

by Sean Miller

This essay is part of a collection entitled Encountering Buddhism in Twentieth-Century British and American Literature, edited by Lawrence Normand and Alison Winch, forthcoming from Continuum Press in 2013.

Taking the publication of The Tao of Physics in 1975 as its starting point, the chapter examines a particular... more Taking the publication of The Tao of Physics in 1975 as its starting point, the chapter examines a particular imaginative encounter that has enjoyed a central place in Buddhism and Science discourse over the course of the past four decades: the encounter of Buddhism with quantum theory. The chapter focuses on quantum theory because, in many respects, its inaccessibility as a mathematical abstraction invites an imaginative appropriation where the microcosm readily becomes envisioned as an alien and remote space, teeming with oddities such as quantum foam, wave-particle duality, and nonlocal entanglement. In the transit from mathematical formalism to ordinary language, these conceits tend to take on a surplus of meaning supplemental to their relevance within the proscribed context of the theory. Quantum theory promises a corollary to Buddhism pregnant with possibilities, in large part, due to the suggestiveness of juxtaposing two imagined interior spaces, the ‘internal world’ of the mind within Buddhism and the microcosm, imagined also as a world internal to the universe itself. Buddhism and Popular Physics, as a subgenre, also presents a Buddhism rendered accessible, in large part, by stripping it of any sustained account of its socio-historical contexts, its mythologies, its rituals, and its doctrinal heterodoxies.

Un mistico tibetano del XVI secolo: Brug-Pa Kun Legs.

by marco pucciarini

In this paper we examine the figure and work of an ascetic Tibetan .

Institutionalizing Modern "Religion" in China's Buddhism: Political Phases of a Local Revival

by David Wank

In Making Religion, Making the State: The Politics of Religion in Modern China. Coedited with Yoshiko Ashiwa, pp. 126-150. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009.
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Making Religion, Making the State in Modern China: An Introductory Essay

by David Wank

Co-authored with Yoshiko Ashiwa. In Making Religion, Making the State: The Politics of Religion in Modern China. Coedited with Yoshiko Ashiwa, pp. 1-21. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009.
Final preproduction draft

The Globalization of Chinese Buddhism: Clergy and Devotee Networks in the Twentieth Century

by David Wank

Coauthored with Yoshiko Ashiwa. International Journal of Asian Studies, v.2, n.2 (2005): 217-237.

The Politics of a Reviving Buddhist Temple: State, Association, and Religion in Southeast China

by David Wank

Coauthored with Yoshiko Ashiwa. Journal of Asian Studies. V. 65, n. 2 (2006): 337-359.

A Christian’s Introduction to the Religious Blending in Cambodia

by Gerard Ravasco

Published in "East Asian Pastoral Review" Vol. 4, No. 1, 2007

Conference paper presented as: "Towards a Christian Pastoral Approach to Cambodian Culture" at The 7th Socio-Cultural Research Congress on Cambodia, 15-17 November, 2004, Royal University of Phnom Penh.

We live in a time of Globalization, where we find ourselves rubbing shoulders and working together in one place with... more We live in a time of Globalization, where we find ourselves rubbing shoulders and working together in one place with all kinds of people belonging to different races and different creeds. We live in a world which now finds itself immersed in deep global conflicts (terrorism, suicide bombings, political retaliations) which many attribute to religious fanaticism. Thus we can only continue to live peacefully if we maintain that respect for each others beliefs. This is the global dimension this paper wishes to bring forth.

In our present situation, if many of us expatriates live far from our own native land and we live with people of another culture, understanding their milieu will certainly help us understand the people of that place. And since religion is tied up to a particular language and culture, particularly here in Cambodia, it would be worthwhile to study the different religious influences brought about through the centuries upon Cambodian culture. Hence the social dimension of the paper.

The third dimension would be a practical one. Understanding the differences between religions, we could focus more on the bridges that unite rather than the walls that separate us. In this way we realize that being different does not lessen our humanity but rather enriches it.

The paper will present a historical overview of the religious history of Cambodia. The literary survey used in this paper will then attempt to list and describe some particular influences of each of these religions (Animism, Brahmanism, Buddhism) to the Cambodian way of living at the present. Then the paper will try to infer some insights on the observations made focusing on how to build bridges for dialogue between Christians and Khmer Buddhists.

The paper searches into the intertwining of Animism, Brahmanism and Buddhism into what is now uniquely Cambodia’s national religion and how this would impact other religions now entering Cambodia specifically Christianity.

Teaching Buddhism in Britain's Schools: Redefining the Insider Role

by Phra Nicholas Thanissaro

Contemporary Buddhism (2010), Vol.11, No.1, pp.69-84.

Dialogical approaches to Religious Education in Britain's schools have opened the subject to input by Buddhist... more 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. With the proviso that insider input can move beyond the ‘do-ut-des’ religious style, this paper describes eight possible areas of classroom experience where Buddhist insiders can make a beneficial contribution. Of these, examples could be found in the educational literature where insider input through home nurture, teaching materials, teacher expertise, insider input and pedagogy had already been applied to good effect in the classroom. However, in the areas of the Agreed Syllabuses for Religious Education, school ethos and national representation input was found lacking or skewed toward ‘convert’ Buddhist expectations, while the voice of the more numerous ‘migrant’ Buddhist community remained relatively unheard.

Measuring attitude towards Buddhism and Sikhism: internal consistency reliability for two new instruments

by Phra Nicholas Thanissaro

Mental Health, Religion & Culture (2011), Volume 14, No.8, pp.797-803

This paper describes and discusses the development and empirical properties of two new 24-item scales – one measuring... more This paper describes and discusses the development and empirical properties of two new 24-item scales – one measuring attitude towards Buddhism and the other measuring attitude towards Sikhism. The scale is designed to facilitate inter-faith comparisons within the psychology of religion alongside the well-established Francis Scale of Attitude towards Christianity. Data were obtained from a multi-religious sample of 369 school pupils aged between 13 and 15 in London. Application of the two scales demonstrated that adolescents had a more positive attitude to Buddhism than Sikhism. The findings confirm the reliability of the scales and commend them for further use.

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by Nikolay Tsyrempilov