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A Review Of Ashley Thompson's "Engendering The Buddhist State.", Erik W. Davis Davise@Macalester.Edu Feb 2017

A Review Of Ashley Thompson's "Engendering The Buddhist State.", Erik W. Davis Davise@Macalester.Edu

Erik W. Davis

A review of Ashley Thompson's book Engendering the Buddhist State: territory, sovereignty and sexual difference in the inventions of Angkor

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The Practice Of Attention, Philip Novak Feb 2016

The Practice Of Attention, Philip Novak

Philip Novak

"Practices that strengthen the capacity for concentration or attention play a role in most great religious traditions. The importance of developing attention is most readily seen in the great traditions that arose in India, namely Hinduism and Buddhism." ~ from the article

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Mysticism, Enlightenment, And Morality, Philip Novak Feb 2016

Mysticism, Enlightenment, And Morality, Philip Novak

Philip Novak

"Our outspoken anthropologist friend, Dr. A. Bharati, once remarked that if someone is a stinker before a mystical experience, he'll be a stinker afterwards .1 The swami's observation stemmed from years spent among the holy men of India and , no doubt, from considerable personal experience. It is an exaggeration , of course, but we cannot dismiss his crucial point: it is quite possible to be a mystic and a stinker. If we refuse to take Bharati's word for it, we need only to examine the numerous recent accounts of the oafish behavior displayed by acclaimed mystic-teachers. Or we …

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New Buddhist Silk Roads, Rosita Dellios, R. James Ferguson Nov 2015

New Buddhist Silk Roads, Rosita Dellios, R. James Ferguson

Rosita Dellios

As China embarks on its One Belt, One Road Initiative it is recreating not only the economic Silk Road of the past but incorporating a Buddhist-based regionalism that stretched from Eurasia to maritime kingdoms in the southern seas. It was a mandalic world of trade and a dharma of easy communication between cultures and religions. After outlining China’s One Belt, One Road Initiative, this paper provides the historical setting of silk road regionalism with its Buddhist contribution, and then moves to the possibility of a new silk road mandala. The paper concludes with a Buddhist geopolitics of peace. Here Buddhism’s …

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New Buddhist Silk Roads, Rosita Dellios, R. James Ferguson Nov 2015

New Buddhist Silk Roads, Rosita Dellios, R. James Ferguson

R. James Ferguson

As China embarks on its One Belt, One Road Initiative it is recreating not only the economic Silk Road of the past but incorporating a Buddhist-based regionalism that stretched from Eurasia to maritime kingdoms in the southern seas. It was a mandalic world of trade and a dharma of easy communication between cultures and religions. After outlining China’s One Belt, One Road Initiative, this paper provides the historical setting of silk road regionalism with its Buddhist contribution, and then moves to the possibility of a new silk road mandala. The paper concludes with a Buddhist geopolitics of peace. Here Buddhism’s …

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The Great Virtue Of Heaven And Earth 天地之大德:" Deep Ecology In The Yijing 易經, Joseph Adler Nov 2015

The Great Virtue Of Heaven And Earth 天地之大德:" Deep Ecology In The Yijing 易經, Joseph Adler

Joseph Adler

No abstract provided.

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Blooming In The Desert, Anne Teich Dec 1995

Blooming In The Desert, Anne Teich

Anne Teich

This book provides a biographical account of the Theravada Buddhist master, the Very Venerable Taungpulu Sayadaw of Burma. In 1978, at the age of 80, Taungpulu Sayadaw left his native country for the first time and came to California, where he taught and established the West's first Burmese Buddhist temple and monastery. Revered as a saint in his lifetime and after his death in 1986, Taungpulu Sayadaw's calm, joyful presence, forged in a lifetime's dedication to the austere spiritual path of the Theravada forest tradition, was a beacon of hope to Burmese people in exile and a radiant example of living Buddhism …

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From Suffering To Clarity, Philip Novak Dec 1993

From Suffering To Clarity, Philip Novak

Philip Novak

"Davis writer David Schneider's 'Street Zen' is an excellent addition to the still-early annals of American Buddhism: a crisp, candid and utterly engaging read. This is the story of a religious conversion, but about as unsentimental as you could imagine." ~ from the article

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The Buddha And The Computer: Meditation In An Age Of Information, Philip Novak Aug 1986

The Buddha And The Computer: Meditation In An Age Of Information, Philip Novak

Philip Novak

Information overload is one of the factors behind current alarming statistics on stress. Meditation helps the body-mind resist the deleterious effects of the information onslaught. Though meditation is well known as a relaxation technique, its noetic value is often overlooked. Its benefits extend well beyond superficial soothing: it trains attention; it increases pattern recognition; and it reconnects us to the whole of our intelligence, enhancing coordination between its complementary poles. Meditation is a potent high-touch resource in a high-tech world.

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