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1530-4108
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Countercurrents of influence in East Asian Buddhism : the Korean case
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Post modern Buddhist commodification : pilgrimage and tourism
In the past religion and art went hand in hand – when combined with Post modernism -the result is most astonishing. Buddhism in search of an ... -
Buddhist mental culture and Western psychology
The focus of this paper is to explore Buddhist Mental Culture and Western Psychology from several perspectives and to discover how they have ... -
Wonhyo (617-686) : a critic of sectarian doctrinal classifications
Most of Korean Buddhist scholars are interested in proving the greatness and uniqueness of Wonhyo 元曉 (617-686) in Korean Buddhist context. However... -
A comparative study of the classification of sons in Hinduism and Buddhism
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 ... -
Characteristics of the Chinese Buddhist music
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 ... -
Towards a Buddhist placemaking
Buddhist practice engages place as a fundamental tool. A Tibetan pilgrim marches into sacred valleys aware and in touch with local spirits. His ... -
World culture and Buddhist values
World culture subsumes the thinking, the feeling and the activities of the human race diverse as they are. There are cultural differences between ... -
Understanding the novel Xi-you-ji (Journey to the West) in the context of politics and religions
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 ... -
Sinhala aesthetics : the order of things
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 ... -
Indo-Tibetan Buddhist literature
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 ... -
Jataka tales and Ajanta murals : ‘sacred beauty’ in Buddhist words and images
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 ... -
Buddhism and cultural adjustability
Being a philosophical thought and religious system based on rational thinking, Buddhism provides a practical way of life. Historically, Buddhism ... -
Religion and culture
Of all the disciplines in the humanities, religion offers a unique problem in definition. It is generally conceded that no universally satisfactory ... -
Buddhism and its contributions to culture
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 ... -
Artistic license and Buddhist aesthetics
A widely controversial artistic performance was conducted in 2001 in China. The plot was as follows: an “artist” patronized a prostitute and had ... -
Humanistic Buddhism and social inequality
To understand Humanistic Buddhism, in terms of present day interest, it is important to examine the Buddhist concept of equality taught by Sakyamuni ... -
An inquiry into the Zen koan of "The Storehouse of the Eye of the Right Dharma" — the spirit of Hsi Lai (Coming from the west)
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 ... -
Buddhism and democracy
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... -
Towards integration and universalization : the Sri Lankan perspectives on Buddhism in the West
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. ...