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From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 59, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewedfor the students of Brooklyn Community High School past, present and future I tell my students: "Words on a page give you points." What I mean is that slapping the thoughts onto the mat, that wrestling mat called a...
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From:Philosophy East and West (Vol. 61, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis is a critical comparison of two important figures, one ancient and one contemporary, in the Indian religious landscape: Gotama Buddha and Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar. Such comparison of their key ideas and practices is...
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From:Philosophy East and West (Vol. 61, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction In the past decade or so there has been a surge of monographs on the nature of 'Buddhist Ethics.' For the most part, authors are concerned with developing and defending explications of Buddhism as a...
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From:Vitae Scholasticae (Vol. 36, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIt seems fitting to refer to the annual International Society for Educational Biography (ISEB) Conference and the work of educational biography as pilgrimages into what it means to be human. From my observer-participant...
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From:Contributions to Nepalese Studies (Vol. 33, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe Context For quite some time Kakrebihar has been an archaeological enigma for the students of cultural history of Nepal, more precisely of west Nepal hills. The site of Kakrebihar (28[degrees]34' north...
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From:Buddhist-Christian Studies (Vol. 40) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT The goal of this paper is to begin a conversation between the speculative vision of the Lotus Sutra and the life of devotion it inspires, on the one hand, and the theological and spiritual tradition of the...
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From:The Journal of the American Oriental Society (Vol. 134, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe native Japanese name of the Buddha hotoke < [poto.sub.2][ke.sub.2] has no internal etymology and is likely to be a loanword introduced together with Buddhism. The hypothesis of a link with Korean pwuche < pwuthye...
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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:The Literary Review (Vol. 44, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedArt comes from "artifice" and "fiction" from the Latin fictio for "counterfeit," the Introduction to Literature texts used to instruct the student. Maybe right. Yet for me poetry has always stood apart from the obvious...
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From:The Literary Review (Vol. 52, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed28.xii.1998 Translated from Mongolian by Simon Wickham-Smith I lost the flow of time. I ransacked my untidy papers, my many dozens of notebooks and I produced an endless stream of poems. They did not make it...
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From:Buddhist-Christian Studies (Vol. 40) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Buddhism arrived in the West as a topic of scholarly investigation, colonial occupation, missionary conquest, and popular fascination in nineteenth-century Europe. The Lotus Sutra, now as then the most widely...
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From:Philosophy East and West (Vol. 50, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe tiger, having taken the young bikkhu [Buddhist monk] up to a rocky place, a broken edge over a hollow spot inaccessible to the bikkhus, began to devour its prey from the feet upwards. The pursuing bikkhus said:...
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From:SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia (Vol. 28, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe increase in crime and violence and the rising popularity of so-called Buddhist amulets in Thai society after World War II were directly related. While the cult of amulets had been long and widely practised among the...
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From:Science (Vol. 291, Issue 5510) Peer-ReviewedTwo ancient Buddhas captured the world's attention last week, as Afghanistan's Taliban leaders began to carry out a decree to demolish all carvings and statues of animals and humans. The government-sponsored destruction...
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From:Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (Vol. 51, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedWhen a contractor is constructing a new building, scaffolding is placed on the outside to give the builder access to the emerging structure as it is being created. Once the building is able to support itself, the...
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From:School Arts (Vol. 106, Issue 5)About the Artwork This large, brightly colored painting shows a Japanese illustration of the death of Shakyamuni Buddha, the fifth-century ac founder of Buddhism. According to ancient texts writ ten in India, the...
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From:Journal of Asian Civilizations (Vol. 35, Issue 2)Byline: Ghani-ur-Rahman and Qamar-un-Nisa Abstract Buddhism and the Buddhist art of Gandhara represent a bright chapter of the past history of the land of present day Pakistan. About Buddhism we find texts in...
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From:School Arts (Vol. 105, Issue 5)About the Buddha The sculptures on these pages represent the Buddha, the spiritual leader and teacher who inspired the Buddhist faith. Buddhism was the dominant religion in India until the twelfth century, and...
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From:Prairie Schooner (Vol. 90, Issue 4)Although Buddha does not recognize Time per se as a linear dimension, This paradoxical Double life we engage in, Egged on by each half, Self-doubt & wonder, Is a kind of uncivilized Internal civil war-- Two transplanted...
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From:The Southern Review (Vol. 54, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe life-size, sculpted Buddha I met yesterday on the ground floor of the Art Institute was born some nine hundred years ago in Tamil Nadu, South India, and came to Chicago as a missionary of bliss just prior to my...