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Theravāda “Missionary Activity”: Exploring The Secular Features Of Socio-Politics And Ethics, Christopher Scott Brugh
Theravāda “Missionary Activity”: Exploring The Secular Features Of Socio-Politics And Ethics, Christopher Scott Brugh
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
The purpose of this thesis is to comprehensively explore Theravāda missionary activity. The philological, textual, theoretical, and ethnographic methods used to investigate the historical, sociopolitical, religious, and ethical aspects of early Theravāda, the U.S. Vipassanā (Insight) meditation movement, and modern Burmese Theravāda revealed nuanced meanings in the descriptions of these adherents’ endeavors with respect to proselytizing, converting, and the concept of missionary religions. By exploring the secular features that contributed to their religious appearances, a more developed contextualization of Theravāda “activity” reshapes understandings of the larger concept of missionary religions. I argue that what has been maintained in the establishment …
Ua12/2/2 2017 Talisman: Power, Wku Student Affairs
Ua12/2/2 2017 Talisman: Power, Wku Student Affairs
WKU Archives Records
2017 Talisman yearbook.
- Gibson, Helen. Letter from the Editor
- Edwards, Aly. What's Your Superpower?
- Mattison, Reed. Dangerous Heights - George Clark, Mountaineering
- Voorhees, Jessica. Innovative Energy - Wei-Ping Pan
- Voorhees, Jessica. Counterpunch - Rock Steady Boxing
- Barritt, Brooklyn. B.G. Bosses - Small Business
- Frint, Hunter. Cason's Cove: The Power of Family
- Mitchell, McKenna. Picking Up the Mic - Reuben Bynes, Waco Bell
- Mohr, Olivia. Hidden in Plain Sight - Human Trafficking
- Mattingly, Evan. Voice Off - Noah Hancock, Deaf Persons
- Robb, Hayley. Game, Set, Unmatched - Phillip Cole, Tennis
- Good, Hannah. Damage Control - Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Gordon, Zora. …
Ua12/2/2 2017 Talisman: Well Being, Wku Student Affairs
Ua12/2/2 2017 Talisman: Well Being, Wku Student Affairs
WKU Archives Records
2017 Talisman yearbook.
- Kaetzel, Kylee. Editor’s Note
- Upton, Jordan. His Hands
- Watkins, Abby. The Meal Plan – Recipes
- Eastham, Lillie. New Hieghts – Reed Mattison, Rock Climbing
- Robb, Hayley. A Life Transformed – Annabeth Welborn
- Robb, Hayley. 6:00 AM Bright & Early – Exercise
- Doyel, Rachael. Redifining Ability – Jacob Holt
- Upton, Jordan. Yom Kippur at Happy Hills Buddhist Temple
- Wegert, Sally. Inner Peace – Allison Adams, Yoga
- Mattingly, Evan. The Future’s in Your Hands – Bianca Williams, Psychics
- Frint, Hunter. Too Often Silenced – Unity Walk
- Doyel, Rachael. Changing Tides
- Wells, Spencer. Struggle & Rebirth – Trey Farlee, Musicians …
Ua68/1/2 Student Awards Ceremony Program, Wku Potter College Of Arts & Letters
Ua68/1/2 Student Awards Ceremony Program, Wku Potter College Of Arts & Letters
WKU Archives Records
Student awards ceremony program which has photos, brief biographies and faculty endorsements of student award winners.
Tradition And Change: Two Buddhisms In The Bible Belt Sharing Common Ground Through Adaptation, Jonathan Spence
Tradition And Change: Two Buddhisms In The Bible Belt Sharing Common Ground Through Adaptation, Jonathan Spence
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
This thesis examines how some American and Burmese forms of Buddhism in the Bible Belt today share common ground through a process of adaptation. Exploring tradition and change, I reveal how change often requires adaptation. Utilizing ethnographic research conducted in south central Kentucky and middle Tennessee, I argue that some Burmese and American forms of Buddhism in the Bible Belt experience change through three aspects of adaptation. These consist of reduction, syncretism, and preservation. I explore these three aspects through interviews and observations of immigrant Burmese Buddhist monks and American Buddhist meditation leaders. In doing so, I also examine the …
“Texts Memorized, Texts Performed: A Reconsideration Of The Role Of Paritta In Sri Lankan Monastic Education.”, Jeffrey Samuels
“Texts Memorized, Texts Performed: A Reconsideration Of The Role Of Paritta In Sri Lankan Monastic Education.”, Jeffrey Samuels
Philosophy & Religion Faculty Publications
During the past twenty years there has been a growing interest in monastic education within the larger field of Buddhist studies. Within the last ten years in particular, a number of monographs and articles examining the training and education of monks in Korea (Buswell [1992]), Tibet/India (Dreyfus [2003]), Thailand/Laos (Collins [1990], McDaniel [2002, 2003]), and Sri Lanka (Blackburn [1999a, 1999b, 2001] Samuels [2002]), have been published. Many of those works have paid particular attention to the texts used in monastic training, as well as to how the information contained in those very texts is imparted to and embodied by monks …
The Bodhisattva Ideal In Theravāda Buddhist Theory And Practice: A Reevaluation Of The Bodhisattva-Śrāvaka Opposition, Jeffrey Samuels
The Bodhisattva Ideal In Theravāda Buddhist Theory And Practice: A Reevaluation Of The Bodhisattva-Śrāvaka Opposition, Jeffrey Samuels
Philosophy & Religion Faculty Publications
In the academic study of Buddhism the terms" Mahayana" and "Hinayana" are often set in contradiction to each other, and the two vehicles are described as having different aspirations, teachings, and practices. The distinctions made between the Mahayana and the Hinayana, how-ever, force the schools into neat, isolated, and independent categories that often undermine the complexities that exist concerning their beliefs, ideologies, and practices.
Ua3/7/7 Scrapbook File, Wku President - Alexander
Ua3/7/7 Scrapbook File, Wku President - Alexander
WKU Archives Records
Clippings regarding WKU during November 1987.