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📰 "Americans Need Something to Sit On," or Zen Meditation Materials and Buddhist Diversity in North America (A free, 21-page article from 2000) Tags:
#MaterialCulture
#Buddhism
#USA
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"Americans Need Something to Sit On," or Zen Meditation Materials and Buddhist Diversity in North America
> chimerically constructed commodities should be considered neither irrelevant nor an outrage—two common responses. Rather, they are important elements for understanding the development of any religious movement, including Buddhism in America (and maybe especially Buddhism in America).
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/americans-need-something-to-sit-on_padgett-douglas-m
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📰 Civilizational Populism Around the World (A free, 22-page article from 2022) Tags:
#World
#Places
#Society
#Ideology
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Civilizational Populism Around the World
> This article addresses an issue of growing political importance: the global rise of civilizational populism. > From Western Europe to India and Pakistan, and from Indonesia to the Americas, populists are increasingly linking social belonging with civilizational identity—and at times to the belief that the world is divided into religion-based civilizations, some of which are doomed to clash with one another.
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/civilizational-populism-around-world_yilmaz-ihsan-et-al
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📑 Neoliberalism, the Invisibility of Asian and Asian American Buddhists, and Secular Mindfulness in Education (A free, 13-page paper from 2016) Tags:
#SecularDharma
#NeoliberalAmerica
#USA
#AsianAmerica
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What Is the Sound of One Invisible Hand Clapping?: Neoliberalism, the Invisibility of Asian and Asian American Buddhists, and Secular Mindfulness in Education
> Secular mindfulness requires an ideology of white conquest that makes invisible the enduring efforts of Asian and Asian-American Buddhists in maintaining the legacy of mindfulness practices.
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/papers/what-sound-of-one-invisible-hand_hsu-funie
2 days ago
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📰 Self Psychology and the Natural World at an American Buddhist Center (A free, 18-page article from 2014) Tags:
#USA
#Tnh
#Huayan
#Nature
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The Trees, My Lungs: Self Psychology and the Natural World at an American Buddhist Center
> This study employs ethnographic field data to trace a dialogue between the self‐psychological concept of the self object and experiences regarding the concept of “interbeing” at a Vietnamese Buddhist monastery in the United States. > The dialogue develops an understanding of human experiences with the nonhuman natural world which are tensive, liminal, and nondual. > From the dialogue I find that the self object concept, when applied to this form of Buddhism, must be inclusive enough to embrace relationships with animals, stones, and other natural forms.
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/trees-my-lungs_capper-daniel
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"War" from Old High German *werra* meaning “confusion, discord, chaos” and "Monger" from Old English *mangere* meaning a “dealer or trader”
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📰 U.S. Media Representations of Buddhism in the Wake of the Tiger Woods' Scandal (A free, 19-page article from 2012) Tags:
#AmericanCulture
#USA
#MassMedia
#PublicRelations
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"Christianity Is for Rubes; Buddhism Is for Actors": U.S. Media Representations of Buddhism in the Wake of the Tiger Woods' Scandal
> Buddhism was here deployed in the service of a pre-existing narrative of conflict between conservatives and liberals and, by making appeals to secular scholars to define Buddhism, Buddhist voices were obscured or ignored. Finally, despite having their own media outlets, U.S. Buddhists were unable to effectively counter such representations either by perpetuating pre-existing media narratives nor by ignoring them altogether.
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/christianity-for-rubes-buddhism-for-actors_mitchell-scott-a
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12 months ago
Public Etiquette in Japan – A Quick Reminder! Keep your voice down & no phone calls on public transport/ Carry your trash / Smoke only in designated areas / Always queue properly / Remove shoes where required / Avoid eating while walking / Respect personal space & follow traffic rules / No tipping!
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📰 A Historical and Religious Study of the Buddhist Ceremony for Peace and Prosperity in Sri Lanka (A free, 51-page article from 1981) Tags:
#TheravadaChanting
#Buddhist
#SriLanka
#Theravada
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Paritta: A Historical and Religious Study of the Buddhist Ceremony for Peace and Prosperity in Sri Lanka
> This ceremony centres on the recitation—usually by Buddhist monks—of extracts fron the Pali Canon, collected in a text called the *Gatubhāṇavārapāli*, *Paritta* or in Siahala *Piruvānāpotvahanse*. Its objective is to ward off danger, ensure protection and bless the sponsors. It is prevalent in other Theravada Buddhist countries such as Burma and Thailand as well, but this work is confined to a study of the tradition preserved in Sri Lanka.
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/paritta-historical-and-religious-study_silva-lily-de
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📕 False Beliefs in Communication (A free, 136-page book from 2023) Tags:
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Misunderstandings: False Beliefs in Communication
> What do we expect when we say something to someone, and what do they expect when they hear it? When is a conversation successful? The book considers a wide set of two-person conversations, and a bit of game theory, to show how conversational statements and their interpretations are governed by beliefs.
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/monographs/misunderstandings_weizsacker-georg
6 days ago
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📑 Mind Cure and Meditation at Greenacre and Beyond (A free, 37-page paper from 2019) Tags:
#USA
#SecularDharma
#NewAge
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Mind Cure and Meditation at Greenacre and Beyond
> Leaders of New Thought were first exposed to Buddhism and Vedanta philosophy through the publications of European Orientalists and the Theosophical Society and, later, though personal contacts with Asian Buddhist and Hindu missionaries. > In addition to D. T. Suzuki, who helped to spark American interest in Japanese Zen, other important early missionaries were Anagarika Dharmapāla, a Sri Lankan Buddhist and Theosophist, and Swami Vivekenanda, an Indian monk of the Ramakrishna Order who launched the Vedanta Society in North America. > New Thought leaders, Theosophists, and Asian missionaries met in person at the 1893 World’s Parliament of Religions and continued to develop relationships for more than a decade, particularly at the Greenacre conferences in Eliot, Maine. > This chapter reveals the transnational nature of New Thought, which is typically considered to be an American metaphysical religious movement.
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/excerpts/mind-cure-and-meditation-at-greenacre_hickey-wakoh-shannon
7 days ago
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📰 People of Color Cultivating Radical Resilience in North American Insight Meditation (A free, 19-page article from 2021) Tags:
#USA
#Race
#Society
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Sitting in the Fire Together: People of Color Cultivating Radical Resilience in North American Insight Meditation
> Describing their experiences participating in PoC group sits and activities, a recurring sentiment was the embodied feeling of being relaxed, and feeling safe and comfortable.
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/sitting-in-fire-together_gajaweera-nalika
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📰 Sociological Remarks on the Decline of Japanese "Immigrant" Buddhism in Brazil (A free, 21-page article from 2008) Tags:
#Brazilian
#USA
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"The Last Missionary to Leave the Temple Should Turn Off the Light": Sociological Remarks on the Decline of Japanese "Immigrant" Buddhism in Brazil
> Empirical data indicate that the so-called "Buddhism of yellow color" that is predominantly associated with Japanese "immigrant" Buddhism, is constantly in decline in terms of "explicit" adherents. After some methodological observations, this article gives an overview of the relevant statistical data.
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/last-missionary-to-leave-temple_usarski-frank
9 days ago
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📼 Buddhist Art in Early India (A free, 59-minute video from 2023) Tags:
#Buddhastatue
#EarlyBuddhism
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Fragrant Stories: Buddhist Art in Early India
> The celebrations, you can see, were not subdued meditation events. Dancing, instruments being played and so on. This is hardly restrained. This is extatic worship.
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/av/fragrant-stories_guy-john
10 days ago
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🗣️ When Exactly Was the Age of Reason? (A free, 54-minute podcast from 2020) Tags:
#World
#Today
#Science
#Intelligence
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When Exactly Was the Age of Reason?
> All of us exist within a world of deep forces that we navigate at a level that is not what we term rational. All of us exist within a context, a late capitalist world, that is by no means rational. And in such a world, are untapped, unharnessed, undirected energies and longings going to be funneled and directed by those who figure out how to do so? Absolutely. And we're not above that.
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/av/age-of-reason_emerald
11 days ago
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📰 Meditators Evidence Neurophysiological Markers of Death Acceptance (A ✨NEW✨, free, 13-page article) Tags:
#Death
#Meditation
#Tmt
#Dharma
#Neuroscience
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Training the Embodied Self in Its Impermanence: Meditators Evidence Neurophysiological Markers of Death Acceptance
> Meditators’ brains responded to the coupling of death and self-stimuli in a manner indicating acceptance rather than denial, corresponding to increased self-reported well-being. > Additionally, degree of death acceptance predicted positively valenced meditation-induced self-dissolution experiences, thus shedding light on possible mechanisms underlying wholesome vs > pathological disruptions to self-consciousness. > The findings provide empirical support for the hypothesis that the neural mechanisms underlying the human tendency to avoid death are not hard-wired but are amenable to mental training, one which is linked with meditating on the experience of the embodied self’s impermanence. > The results also highlight the importance of assessing and addressing mortality concerns when implementing psychopharmacological or contemplative interventions with the potential of inducing radical disruptions to self-consciousness.
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/training-embodied-self-in-its-impermanence_dor-ziderman-yair-et-al
12 days ago
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🗣️ Making Buddhist Families in Modern Taiwan (A ✨NEW✨, free, 64-minute podcast) Tags:
#Modern
#China
#Children
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Literature for Little Bodhisattvas: Making Buddhist Families in Modern Taiwan
> [Children in these picture books] have qualities that differ from what mature adults have, but they are valuable none-the-less. And actually, in the case of 一休 (Ikkyū) especially, he is often shown as being wiser in a certain way or at least more clever than the adults. [... They show that] naughty or mischievous behavior isn't necessarily an endpoint, and that change and growth are possible. [... So,] you can think about how these stories work for both children *and* for the adult caregivers who might be reading them.
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/av/literature-for-little-bodhisattvas_heller-natasha
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📰 An Investigation of the Experiences of People of Color in a Primarily White American Meditation Community (A free, 18-page article from 2019) Tags:
#RaceInAmerica
#USA
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Inclusion and Exclusion in the White Space: An Investigation of the Experiences of People of Color in a Primarily White American Meditation Community
> The present study extrapolates six distinct themes related to the experiences of racialized inclusion and exclusion [by eleven participants of color]. These themes are: 1) Interpersonal Barriers to Full Participation, 2) Institutional Barriers to Full Participation, 3) Strategies for Coping with Racialized Exclusion, 4) Failures of Leadership Support for People of Color, 5) Range of POC Experiences, and 6) Promoting Equity and Inclusion. Following the explication of themes, the authors offer recommendations for primarily white meditation communities to help guide their efforts toward greater inclusion
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/inclusion-and-exclusion-in-white-space_hase-craig-nicholas-et-al
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📰 Lessons of Shingon in Brazil (A free, 38-page article from 2003) Tags:
#TantricJapanese
#USA
#Brazilian
#Buddhism
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"Buddhism in Syncretic Shape": Lessons of Shingon in Brazil
> Given the growing dilution of Buddhist identity and its tendency toward syncretism in Brazil, this paper works with the heuristic concept of a 'Buddhism in Syncretic Shape.' Since this concept is useful for better understanding some groups in Brazil, it is suggested that it can also provide interesting insights for the study of Buddhism in the West. This concept will be developed through a detailed description of Shingon in Brazil, which has undergone a religious synthesis with Catholicism and Afro-Brazilian religions.
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/buddhism-in-syncretic-shape_shoji-rafael
15 days ago
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📕 Disability and the Politics of Communication (A free, 141-page book from 2022) Tags:
#Communication
#InfoCapitalism
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Cheap Talk: Disability and the Politics of Communication
> The production of cheap talk relies everywhere on the depoliticisation of communication. Cheap talk displaces a shared traversal of difference with a technocratic exchange of messages. [...] This is a thoroughly sterile ecology of communication: minds making speech to transfer information to other minds. [...] It is not [stuttering] but fluency that ensnares life with a type of deathly repetition.
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/monographs/cheap-talk_stpierre-joshua
16 days ago
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📰 Thai Community Making in the United States (A free, 21-page article from 2017) Tags:
#Buddhist
#AsianAmerica
#USA
#Things
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Not Simple Temple Food: Thai Community Making in the United States
> Drawing from interviews, participant observation, and online research, I examine two interconnected issues. > First, how temple food practices—offering alms to monks and operating newly invented temple food courts—sustain temples spiritually and financially. > Second, how temple food, which is consistently integrated into various events and rituals, enables Thai Americans and a diverse assortment of other participants to connect and work together.
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/not-simple-temple-food_bao-jiemin
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📰 Diverse Practices and Flexible Beliefs among Young Adult Asian American Buddhists (A free, 24-page article from 2017) Tags:
#USA
#Enculturation
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Diverse Practices and Flexible Beliefs among Young Adult Asian American Buddhists
> In their open-minded attitudes toward a wide range of Buddhist practices and multivalent interpretations of various Buddhist beliefs, these young adults challenge simplistic representations of Asian American Buddhists and present an inclusive vision of Buddhism that embraces nuance, ambiguity, and change.
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/diverse-practices-and-flexible-beliefs_han-chenxing
18 days ago
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📰 Jodo Shinshu Buddhism and Same-Sex Marriage in the United States (A free, 29-page article from 2012) Tags:
#Pureland
#Ethics
#USA
#QueerHistory
#Religion
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"All Beings Are Equally Embraced By Amida Buddha": Jodo Shinshu Buddhism and Same-Sex Marriage in the United States
> Ministers in the Buddhist Churches of America (BCA) began performing same-sex marriages approximately forty years ago. These were among the first clergy-led religious ceremonies for same-sex couples performed in the modern era, and were apparently the first such marriages conducted in the history of Buddhism. In this article, I seek to explain why Jodo Shinshu Buddhists in America widely and easily affirmed same-sex weddings in the later 20th and early 21st centuries. My argument is that there are three factors in particular—institutional, historical, and theological elements of American Shin Buddhism—that must be attended to as contributing reasons why ministers were supportive of same-sex marriage.
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/all-beings-equally-embraced-by-amida_wilson-jeff
19 days ago
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🆓 Virtual Angkor (A free, 60-minute resource from 2019) Tags:
#Cambodia
#Theravada
#ASEAN
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Virtual Angkor
A series of handcrafted 3D animations and explanatory essays giving a feel for what Angkor would have looked like back in its prime in the 13th century CE.
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/reference/virtual-angkor
20 days ago
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📕 Yosano Akiko and *The Tale of Genji* (A free, 193-page book from 2000) Tags:
#Genji
#ImperialJapan
#Translation
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Yosano Akiko and The Tale of Genji
> Texts are more amenable to alteration than people.
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/monographs/yosano-akiko-and-genji_rowley
21 days ago
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🗣️ Buddhist Charity in Urban Vietnam (A ✨NEW✨, free, 61-minute podcast) Tags:
#Vietnamese
#EngagedBuddhism
#Charity
#Zen
#Buddhist
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Near Light We Shine: Buddhist Charity in Urban Vietnam
> Today you have to understand charity if you want to understand Buddhism.
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/av/near-light-vietnam-charity_swenson-sara
22 days ago
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📖 The Politics of Buddhist Organizations in Taiwan, 1989-1997 (A free, 354-page thesis from 1999) Tags:
#China
#Taiwan
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The Politics of Buddhist Organizations in Taiwan, 1989-1997
> This dissertation looks at the political behavior of three Taiwanese Buddhist organizations from 1989 to 1997: the Buddhist Association of the Republic of China (BAROC), the Buddha Light Mountain monastic order (or Foguangshan) and the Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu Chi Association (or Ciji). > It concentrates on trying to understand the rationale behind the different strategies that each of them has adopted in its interaction with the government.
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/booklets/politics-of-buddhist-organizations-in-taiwan_laliberte-andre
23 days ago
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☸️ A Heap of the Unwholesome (A free, 1-page sutta translation from 2012) Tags:
#Wisdom
#BuddhaQuotes
#Motivation
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AN 5.52 Akusalarāsi Sutta: A Heap of the Unwholesome
> Bhikkhus, saying ‘a heap of the unwholesome,’ it is about the five hindrances that one could rightly say this.
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/canon/an5.52
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📖 Human-Animal Interaction at the Ancient Urban Site of Sisupalgarh (A free, 339-page thesis from 2022) Tags:
#Animals
#Buddha
#Archeology
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Human-Animal Interaction at the Ancient Urban Site of Sisupalgarh
Examination of animal remains at a site in Eastern India shows a sharp decline in the number of animals killed there after the introduction of Buddhism and Jainism.
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/booklets/animals-in-ancient-sisupalgarh_ammerman-s
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📰 (Mis)Reading Domestic Politics through a Great Power Lens (A free, 35-page article from 2024) Tags:
#Thailand
#Politics
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All About China?: (Mis)Reading Domestic Politics through a Great Power Lens
> We examine the extent to which domestic political developments can be understood through a US–China great power lens. Are politically progressive Thais more likely to be pro-US, and more politically conservative Thais likely to favor China? While we find some relationship between liberal domestic political leanings and sympathy for the United States, we also show that conservative domestic political leanings do not automatically translate into support for China.
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/all-about-china_alderman-et-al
26 days ago
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☸️ Corruptions (A free, 2-page sutta translation from 2018) Tags:
#BuddhaQuotes
#Monk
#Dialogue
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AN 4.50 Upakkilesa Sutta: Corruptions
Four things obscure the sun and moon, so they don’t shine and glow and radiate. And four things corrupt the holy life: alcohol, sex, money, and wrong livelihood.
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/canon/an4.50
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📰 Sri Lankan Buddhist Drumming (A free, 123-page article from 2018) Tags:
#Buddhastatue
#SriLankanBart
#Music
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Sri Lankan Buddhist Drumming
This pair of articles explains how the arhythmic quality of Sri Lankan Buddhist drum offerings is an intentional avoidance of Indian *tala* metrical theory in order to justify the drumming as as a kind of communal recitation appropriate to offer to the Buddha.
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/sri-lankan-buddhist-drumming_sykes-jim
28 days ago
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📕 Knowledge and the Norm of Assertion (A free, 128-page book from 2016) Tags:
#RightSpeech
#World
#Mind
#Communication
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Knowledge and the Norm of Assertion
This short book lays out the scientific argument for the simple assertion that people expect statements to be true, showing that honesty is, truly, a universal, human norm.
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/monographs/knowledge-and-norm-of-assertion_turri-john
29 days ago
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📰 Master Rurui between Continuity and Change (A free, 30-page article from 2020) Tags:
#China
#Nuns
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Building the Largest Female Buddhist Monastery in Contemporary China: Master Rurui between Continuity and Change
> Born in 1957, Rurui 如瑞, the abbess of Pushou Monastery 普寿寺 on Mount Wutai, in Shanxi province, belongs to the generation of Buddhists that became monastics after the opening up of China in the 1980s and came to leadership afterwards. > She has been building Pushou Monastery, and the Mount Wutai Buddhist Institute for Nuns (中国五台山尼众佛学院) that it hosts, since 1991, as part of the institutionalised system, and negotiating with both the political authorities and the laity.
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/building-largest-female-buddhist-monastery-in-china_peronnet-amandine
about 1 month ago
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📖 Multiculturalism and Western Convert Buddhist Movements in East London, A Qualitative Study (A free, 271-page thesis from 2008) Tags:
#Race
#FridayReads
#BritishBuddhism
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Buddhism, Diversity, and Race: Multiculturalism and Western Convert Buddhist Movements in East London, A Qualitative Study
> The case-studies are of two of the largest Western convert Buddhist movements in the UK—the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order (FWBO) and Soka Gakkai International-UK (SGI-UK)—and focus on their branches in the multicultural inner-city location of East London. > The findings suggest that most Buddhists of colour in these movements come from the second generation of the diaspora.
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/booklets/buddhism-diversity-and-race_smith-sharon-e
about 1 month ago
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🗣️ Gate A4 (A free, 19-minute
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from 2021) Tags:
#Poetry
#Albuquerque
#Society
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Gate A4
> little girls from our flight ran around serving it and they were covered with powdered sugar, too. And I noticed my new best friend— by now we were holding hands—had a potted plant poking out of her bag...
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/av/gate-a4_shihab-nye-naomi
about 1 month ago
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🆓 The Tibetan and Himalayan Library (A free resource from 2000) Tags:
#Tibet
#Himalayas
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The Tibetan and Himalayan Library
A large collection of short writings and media on a variety of Tibetan cultural topics.
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/reference/thl
about 1 month ago
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📰 The Emergence of Buddhist Postmodernism? (A free, 19-page article from 2014) Tags:
#CaliBuddhist
#USA
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From Buddhist Hippies to Buddhist Geeks: The Emergence of Buddhist Postmodernism?
> Buddhist Geeks is an online Buddhist media company and community that launched in 2007. It consists of a weekly audio podcast and a digital magazine component and since 2011, has hosted an annual conference. I will discuss the main characteristics and concerns of the Buddhist Geeks community and explore how it can be situated both in relationship to traditional Buddhism and Buddhist modernism. In conclusion, I reflect on whether Buddhist Geeks signals the emergence of a new, distinctly postmodern stage in the wider assimilation of Buddhism in America.
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/from-buddhist-hippies-to-buddhist-geeks_gleig-a
about 1 month ago
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📰 BuddhaBros, Alt-Right Dharma, and Snowflake Sanghas (A free, 30-page article from 2021) Tags:
#EngagedBuddhism
#USA
#Race
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The #BuddhistCultureWars: BuddhaBros, Alt-Right Dharma, and Snowflake Sanghas
> While often associated with a liberal demographic, the increasing online visibility of rhetoric such as "snowflakes," "politically correct," "postmodern identity politics," and "cultural Marxism" demonstrates the presence of right-wing sentiments and populations in American convert Buddhism.
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/buddhistculturewars_gleig-a-et-al
about 1 month ago
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📰 Buddhist Universities in the United States of America (A free, 16-page article from 2013) Tags:
#USA
#HigherEd
#EngagedBuddhism
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Buddhist Universities in the United States of America
> These universities provide education in liberal arts and professional fields, while employing the time-tested methods of traditional Buddhist pedagogy. > Because these universities are generally unknown to the public, I have provided information about their history, academic programs, and the educational success created on their campuses.
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/buddhist-universities-in-us_storch-tanya
about 1 month ago
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📼 The Advantages of Dyslexia (A free, 7-minute video from 2023) Tags:
#Feeling
#Neuroscience
#Intelligence
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The Advantages of Dyslexia
> The people with dyslexia proved significantly faster at recognizing the impossible figures.
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/av/dyslexia_vox
about 1 month ago
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📰 Birken Forest Monastery and the Monasticization of Convert Theravada in Cascadia (A free, 16-page article from 2022) Tags:
#USA
#Sangha
#ThaiBuddhism
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A Monastery for Laypeople: Birken Forest Monastery and the Monasticization of Convert Theravada in Cascadia
> Theravada as practiced by most converts in the West is distinguished by the absence of monasticism, its dominant institution. > Nevertheless, Thai Forest monasticism has managed to gain a foothold in the convert West, thanks to the efforts of convert monastics trained in Thailand. > This article analyzes the missionary project to “monasticize” Western lay converts through the history of Birken Forest Monastery in British Columbia, Canada, founded in 1994.
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/monastery-for-laypeople-birken_ferguson-karen
about 1 month ago
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📰 Racial Formation in Black Buddhist Writing (A free, 29-page article from 2018) Tags:
#Caste
#USA
#EngagedBuddhism
#AfricanAmerica
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Being Buddha, Staying Woke: Racial Formation in Black Buddhist Writing
> Taking as its focus twentieth- and twenty-first-century semiautobiographical writings by black American Buddhists, this article explores how black American Buddhists engage with Buddhist teachings to understand themselves as racialized subjects on local, national, and transnational levels.
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/being-buddha-staying-woke_mcnicholl-adeana
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📰 Albert J. Edmunds, D. T. Suzuki, and Translocative History. (A free, 33-page article from 2005) Tags:
#USA
#JapaneseBuddhism
#Modern
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American Occultism and Japanese Buddhism: Albert J. Edmunds, D. T. Suzuki, and Translocative History.
> This essay focuses on Albert J. Edmunds, a British-American Buddhist sympathizer, and it considers the ways that Western occult traditions, especially Swedenborgianism, moved back and forth across the Pacific and shaped the work of D. T. Suzuki.
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/american-occultism-and-japanese-buddhism_tweed-thomas-a
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📰 Religions Derive Their Power from Authentic Spiritual Depth (A free, 3-page article from 1985) Tags:
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Religions Derive Their Power from Authentic Spiritual Depth
> Ultimately, then, religions derive their power from the depth of their spirituality. The power of Zen, for example, flows out of Tokusan's "Thirty Blows" or Rinzai's "Katsu!!!" or Jōshū's "Mu" ("Emptiness"). The power of Jodo Shinshu also originates from one single point of absolute depth: from the nembutsu.
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/power-from-authentic-spiritual-depth_unno-tetsuo
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📰 Maps of Subjective Feelings (A free, 6-page article from 2018) Tags:
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Maps of Subjective Feelings
> Subjective feelings are a central feature of human life, yet their relative organization has remained elusive. > We mapped the “human feeling space” for 100 core feelings ranging from cognitive and affective processes to somatic sensations; in the analysis, we combined basic dimension rating, similarity mapping, bodily sensation mapping, and neuroimaging meta-analysis.
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/maps-of-subjective-feelings_nummenmaa-lauri-et-al
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📰 Religion and Superstition in the Writings of Inoue Enryō (A free, 26-page article from 2006) Tags:
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When Buddhism Became a “Religion”: Religion and Superstition in the Writings of Inoue Enryō
> In response, Buddhist leaders divided traditional Buddhist cosmology and practices into the newly constructed categories 'superstition' and 'religion.' Superstition was deemed 'not really Buddhism' and purged, while the remainder of Buddhism was made to accord with Westernized ideas of 'religion.'
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/when-buddhism-became-religion_josephson
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📰 Translating Nativist Resistance in the Age of Transnational Capital (A free, 45-page article from 2007) Tags:
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#ThaiBuddhism
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Sulak Sivaraksa and Buddhist Activism: Translating Nativist Resistance in the Age of Transnational Capital
> Although he is highly critical of a hybrid culture in which Westernized values are on the ascendant and traditional Asian/Thai values wane, he is by no means hostile to the building of a hybrid culture of resistance where Buddhism and Christianity join hands in confronting injustice.
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/sulak-sivaraksa-and-buddhist-activism_ip-hung-yok
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📰 Telling the Life of Hsing Yun in Popular Media (A free, 25-page article from 2015) Tags:
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Toward a Modern Buddhist Hagiography: Telling the Life of Hsing Yun in Popular Media
> The founder of Fo Guang Shan is one of the most influential Buddhist monks in Taiwan and around the world. This study examines the biographies of Hsing Yun as depicted in Fo Guang Shan’s popular media to elucidate the uses and significance of Buddhist hagiography in contemporary Taiwan. I argue that unlike the Buddhist hagiographies of earlier times in which eminent monks were depicted as transcendental beings with superhuman powers and spiritual attainments, the informal and intimate portrayals of Hsing Yun in popular media seek to portray the monk as a worldling bodhisattva
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/toward-modern-buddhist-hagiography_chia-jack-meng-tat
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📰 Knowledge, Power, and the Construction of Minority Identity (A free, 19-page article from 2018) Tags:
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Tibet and China's Orientalists: Knowledge, Power, and the Construction of Minority Identity
> Orientalist tropes are pervasive in current tibetological work published in China, including articles in purportedly scholarly journals. This work is closely connected with government propaganda, and it is often explicitly directed by members of the government to further agendas of suppression.
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/tibet-and-china-orientalist-knowledge_powers-john
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📰 The Ritualizing of the Martial and Benevolent Side of Ravana in Two Annual Rituals at the Sri Devram Maha Viharaya in Pannipitiya, Sri Lanka (A free, 24-page article from 2018) Tags:
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The Ritualizing of the Martial and Benevolent Side of Ravana in Two Annual Rituals at the Sri Devram Maha Viharaya in Pannipitiya, Sri Lanka
> Within the context of Ravanisation—by which I mean the current revitalisation of Ravana among Sinhalese Buddhists in Sri Lanka—multiple conceptualizations of Ravana are constructed. > This article concentrates on two different Ravana conceptualizations: Ravana as a warrior king and Ravana as a healer.
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/ritualizing-of-martial-and-benevolent-ravana_koning-deborah-de
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