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From:SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia (Vol. 29, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedTheravada Buddhism is often practised in contexts of significant ethnic diversity in Southeast Asia, but much scholarship has not sufficiently accounted for the role of this diversity in shaping the imagination of...
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From:Buddhist-Christian StudiesPeer-ReviewedAs Charlie Parker devotees will attest, improvisation at its most thrilling, if not its most ingenious, is often the result of careful planning. Cannot something similar be said of interreligious dialogue? All our...
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From:Philosophy East and West (Vol. 44, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe relationship between the early Yogacara school and the Madhyamaka school of Mahayana Buddhism is difficult to determine. Although they were clearly concerned with distinguishing emptiness from nihilism, early...
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From:Philosophy East and West (Vol. 64, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedHere, a central tenet of Mahayana Buddhism, the doctrine of expedient means, is defended in light of the Quinian doctrine of ontological commitment. The need for such a doctrine arises because of significant disparities...
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From:Philosophy East and West (Vol. 58, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedMost of us tend to be Aristotelians when it comes to anger. While admitting that uncontrolled anger is harmful and ought to be avoided, we reject as undesirable a state of being that does not allow us to express...
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From:Journal of Evolutionary PsychologyPeer-ReviewedThe Resume The Zen Mondo is an enlightenment that can be achieved by means of meditation and intuition. This synthesis is of utmost importance, because many people are driven by emotions solely. The term "individual"...
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From:Philosophy East and West (Vol. 59, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedSome common conceptions of Buddhist meditative practice emphasize the elimination of emotion and desire in the interest of attaining tranquility and spiritual perfection. But to place too strong an emphasis on this is...
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From:Cross Currents (Vol. 49, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe Buddhist teaching on Zen guides people towards the path of rest. Christians perceive rest in the light of the meaning of Sabbath. Though the two religions may seem to agree in this concept, there is actually no point...
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From:Philosophy East and West (Vol. 63, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedWe thank Brook Ziporyn for a creative and imaginative treatment of our view in a context we had not considered, that of Tiantai theory. Ziporyn's main criticisms of our position can be summarized in the following two...
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From:Buddhist-Christian Studies (Vol. 25) Peer-ReviewedGenerally, the Buddhist path to nirvana calls a person to leave the mundane life and live as a monk, a sage, or a saint who continually works toward the pure state, toward nirvana. The way to Buddhahood can take the...
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From:Philosophy East and West (Vol. 59, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction Skillful means is usually used by scholars and Buddhists to denote the following simple idea: the Buddha skillfully adapted his teaching to the level of his audience. (1) This very broad and somewhat...
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From:Queen's Quarterly (Vol. 127, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedTime baffles me. I simply cannot understand how one day passes into another one. For years now, I've thought that time is the most mysterious of our experiences, but now I understand that being a parent means having to...
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From:International Journal of Humanities and Peace (Vol. 22, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIs the phrase, "peace in one's self, peace in the world" just pretty words to hear, or is it actually possible to perceive/live that experience? With that and other questions in my heart and mind I set out in June 2006...
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From:Philosophy East and West (Vol. 50, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAlthough a number of Buddhist scholars have examined the doctrine of "skill-in-means" (upaya-kausalya) in Mahayana Buddhist literature, it is surprising that no one has yet developed this important concept in relation...
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From:Philosophy East and West (Vol. 47, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe contrast between Mahayana and Hinayana Buddhist traditions based on the opposition between bodhisattva and sravaka ideals is an oversimplification. The bodhisattva ideal is presented as one possible goal in Theravada...
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From:Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge (Vol. 8, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe social psychological paradigm created by Western social science has virtually ignored the worlds' other most highly developed system of psychological theorizing. This paper argues that an understanding of Buddhist...
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From:Cross Currents (Vol. 52, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedI was at the Sunday morning service at the Ch'an Meditation Center. The speaker lectured on and on as we all sat cross-legged on cushions on the carpet. Individuals to the left of me and to the right moved now and then,...
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From:Philosophy East and West (Vol. 51, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIt seems fitting that the very last verse of Nagarjuna's challenging work, Mulamadhyamakakarika (Fundamental Verses of the Middle Way), would present the reader with what seems to be a riddle: "I prostrate to Gautama,...
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From:Buddhist-Christian Studies (Vol. 24) Peer-ReviewedMahayana theology is an approach to thinking about the Christian faith within the philosophical context of the great Mahayana Buddhist thinkers: philosophers of emptiness such as Nagarjuna, Aryadeva, and Candrakirti in...
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From:Philosophy East and West (Vol. 44, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedNagarjuna in the 'Mulamadhyamikakarika' begins by showing the emptiness of causation, and this first verse on causation anticipates the central argument in chapter 24 for the emptiness of emptiness. Emptiness, meaning...