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The aim of this paper is to give a short account of one aspect of the patriarchal culture in India during the time of the Buddha and before. Both ...
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The study of music in Buddhism, in my opinion, should be considered scarce in comparison to studies done in other areas of the Buddhism, and that is ...
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Buddhist practice engages place as a fundamental tool. A Tibetan pilgrim marches into sacred valleys aware and in touch with local spirits. His ...
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World culture subsumes the thinking, the feeling and the activities of the human race diverse as they are. There are cultural differences between ...
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Journey to the West is a novel known to almost all in China and overseas Chinese. Boys and girls are enchanted by the stories in which the Monkey ...
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This paper looks at aesthetics as a cultural system. This is to say that a culture will be viewed in terms of a “worldview” and preferences in ...
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Indo-Tibetan Buddhist literature is a vast field so that it is unavoidable for a feasible treatment of the present topic to drastically limit the ...
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The question as to the proper and most acceptable view of the relationship between Religion and the Arts is as old as humankind itself. Prior to the ...
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Being a philosophical thought and religious system based on rational thinking, Buddhism provides a practical way of life. Historically, Buddhism ...
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Of all the disciplines in the humanities, religion offers a unique problem in definition. It is generally conceded that no universally satisfactory ...
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Culture and religion concern and deal with some similar human issues in terms of the concept of values, the way of thinking, inner feelings and the ...
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A widely controversial artistic performance was conducted in 2001 in China. The plot was as follows: an “artist” patronized a prostitute and had ...
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To understand Humanistic Buddhism, in terms of present day interest, it is important to examine the Buddhist concept of equality taught by Sakyamuni ...
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This paper is concerned with the koan about Buddha Shakyamuni holding a flower, to which Maha-Kashapa smiled, thereby obtaining the Eye of the Right ...
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Winston Churchill gave us a definition of democracy that indicates the difficulty of dealing with it. In his witty way, he reminded an audience ‘It...
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Buddhism has come to stay in the West and in some of the communities of Europe, America and Oceania. It is said to be the fastest growing religion. ...
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The aim of this paper is to articulate an expanded understanding of the term "Humanistic Psychology" in order to bring together the theoretical ...
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The concept of well-being is very broad; if you look in the dictionary, you will find that it is defined as “the state of being well, happy or ...
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The Vāseṭṭha Sūtra of the Sutta Nipāta is one of the main discourses delivered by the Buddha on the subject of social differentiation and its ...
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It was in the 1920s that Venerable Taixu introduced his notions on Humanistic Buddhism and called for a reform movement in Chinese Buddhism. The ...