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Showing 1 to 20 of 237 for “"Buddhism"”.
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Ethics in Schopenhauer and Buddhism
… is right in claiming convergence between Buddhism and his own philosophy, especially in the area of soteriology as it relates to ethics.
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Schopenhauer's Buddhism: A Historical-Philosophical Inquiry
My thesis is about Schopenhauer’s conception of Buddhism and the impact of Buddhism on his thought. It closely considers the Buddhist texts Schopenhauer read, with the aim of showing that Schopenhauer adopted a particular reading of Buddhism and that this reading partly influenced his philosophy, …
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Social and political ideas of early Buddhism
1.1.1. It has been observed that most social and political ideas properly began with the Greeks, more importantly, from the days of Plato and Aristotle, and that all succeeding social and political thought thought is a footnote and a commentary on Greek But there is also definite and significant …
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Social and political ideas of early Buddhism
1.1.1. It has been observed that most social and political ideas properly began with the Greeks, more importantly, from the days of Plato and Aristotle, and that all succeeding social and political thought thought is a footnote and a commentary on Greek But there is also definite and significant …
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History of Shin Buddhism in the United States
… aim of this study is to tell the history of Shin Buddhism in the continental United States. In order to familiarize the reader with Buddhism, a brief historical and doctrinal background is presented here.
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Exploring Emptiness: Beckett and Buddhism via Arthur Schopenhauer
… Schopenhauer studied the Eastern thought of Buddhism and the Vedas. The religious and philosophical framework for Schopenhauer’s understanding of Buddhist philosophy – which I refer to below as ‘Schopenhauerian Buddhism’ – is used to analyse key Beckettian themes, such as emptiness and the …
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Paths to enlightenment: Theravada Buddhism in upper Burma
This study is based on fieldwork in Mandalay, Burma and on the study of Theravada Buddhist texts. Religious, cultural, and social realities are contrasted with the doctrinal foundations of the Theravada Buddhist tradition taking into account indigenous perceptions and cosmological computations of …
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Entrepreneurial Action: Community and Buddhism contexts in Sri Lanka
… for this study is: “How do community and Buddhism interact with entrepreneurial action?” Using the philosophical position of critical realism and the case study approach as the research strategy to theorise entrepreneurial action, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 24 Buddhist …
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Lamas and Followers: Doing Tibetan Buddhism in Contemporary Chengdu
… the contemporary practice of Tibetan Buddhism in Chengdu, a major Han Chinese populated city in southwestern China. Rather than viewing Tibetan Buddhism as a tradition passively received or consumed by Han Chinese, this ethnographic study examines how Chengdu-based followers and …
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The dilemma of mind in contemporary Buddhism : some British testimony
Progress in neuroscience over the last half-century casts doubt on the religious intuition that the mind is a non-material entity. Without some dialogue between religion and science in order to resolve differences of fact and value, the dilemma of the competing plausibility of scientific and …
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Sacred Screens: Hinduism, Buddhism, Shintoism and Islam in Popular Culture
… artists have begun to look towards Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and Shinto religions for inspiration when conceiving many of the storylines we find in mainstream entertainment today. This thesis will study key examples of film, video game, literary, and television media to show how these artists …
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Buddhism and the earth : environmental thought in early Buddhist philosophy
Introduction Fundamental to the philosophy of Buddhism, is the insight that there is "unsatisfactohness" (dukkha) in the world and that it can be eliminated through the practice of the Noble Eight Fold Path. Buddhism also maintains that the world as we experience and entities that exist are bereft …
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Buddhism in South Africa : from textual imagination to contextual innovation
… provides the first narrative of a history of Buddhism in South Africa. In the absence of any coherent analysis, it thus seeks to expose an historical lacuna in the study of religions in the region and to redress an academic aphasia that appears preeminent in recent "authoritative" …
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Crisis discourse, response, and structural contradictions in Thai Buddhism, 1990-2003
… claimed crisis in the institutional body of Thai Buddhism, what this crisis actually means remains unclear. One of the causes of this confusion is the diffuse use of the notion of 'crisis' (wikrit). This notion has been used to refer to factors as diverse as the impact of globalisation on …
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