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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Buddhist Philosophy"”.
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Buddhist Philosophy and the Ideals of Environmentalism
… between contemporary environmentalist ideals and Buddhist philosophy, focusing, first, on the problem of value in nature. I argue that the teachings found in the Pāli canon cannot easily be reconciled with a belief in the intrinsic value of life, whether human or otherwise. This is because all …
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Buddhist Philosophy and the Epistemological Foundations of Conflict Resolution.
… between Western epistemologies and a Buddhist epistemology. Despite its evolution and development through self-reflexivity and self-critique, contemporary conflict resolution established upon Western epistemologies has confined the understanding of human mind to social/cultural …
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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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ECOLOGY OF A KŌAN: HAKUIN’S ZEN AS A MORAL MODEL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ENGAGEMENT
My thesis is that within Buddhist philosophy the concept of mindfulness is a valuable contribution to environmentalism that similarly extols the virtue of generating a kind of environmental mindfulness. Buddhist traditions have long developed the concept of mindfulness as well as compassion, the …
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A Comparative Study of the Triadic Relation Between Time, Identity and Language in the Works of Julio Cortázar, Marcelo Cohen and Nāgārjuna
… scholarship acknowledges the influence of Buddhist ideas on Julio Cortázar’s fiction, critical analysis of this element of his work does not often engage in depth with Buddhist thought. Buddhism is frequently characterised as something mystical or mythical when read in relation to the works …
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Fantasia Nirvana
… history and future. The Vimalakirti Sutra is a Buddhist text which centers on the Buddhist meditator, Vimalakirti. The text is highly influential in the enlightenment of Buddhist philosophy, especially in East Asia. The piece mainly has two themes: the petal, and a shower of flower petals. The …
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Philosophies, Themes and Symbols in the Poetry of Walt Whitman and Han Yong-Un (Religion, Patriotism, Democracy, Freedom, Independence)
… and democratic ideology; whereas Buddhist philosophy inspired in Han national aspiration for Korean freedom and independence.
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Duality
… parts. Much of my identity is sculpted by the Buddhist philosophy. Thus it is the primary source which I draw from in the making of architecture. However, the philosophy and architecture are in diametrical opposition. Architecture is reliant on the tangibility of materiality and structure. …
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Soteriological Apprehension in Modern Religious Thought: From John Hick to Contemporary Cognitive and Affective Approaches
… structured and evaluated. Taking the pluralistic philosophy of religion developed by John Hick as its point of departure, the study seeks to refine this approach by integrating insights from Buddhist philosophy, early modern empiricism, and contemporary cognitive and affective science. The …
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Ethics in Schopenhauer and Buddhism
… egoism. I look at criticisms of Schopenhauer’s philosophy which have emerged quite recently, and some of which (if valid) would undermine Schopenhauer’s compassion-based moral theory. I have explained these criticisms and offered a defence of Schopenhauer. In order to take up Schopenhauer’s …
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"The Fact of God": Form and Belief in British Modernist Poetry
… and Thom Gunn. Moving from Celtic mythos to Buddhist philosophy, Anglo-Catholic prayer to ancient Greek burial rites, I argue that spirituality and poetic experimentation were reciprocal influences: modernist experimentations in poetic form had a direct impact on how poets represented and …
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The 'I'-tag theory of perception, memory and consciousness.
… recollection, and instigator of actions.The Buddhist philosophy of mind analyses the nature of self and details the stages operating in processes of thought and perception. In particular, the notion of'l' implied in the foregoing description is stated to be illusory. The alternative view, …
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What matter? Human nature beyond the Cartesian Framework. An essay in metapsychology
… and non-Western metaphysics, namely Thomism and Buddhist philosophy - neither of which encounter any body/mind problem in theor accounts of human nature because they do not share the assumptions of the Cartesian framework. Finally, it suggests that more than simply revealing the limitations of …
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An investigation of learner centred techniques in delivering the teaching programmes at the college of education in Sri Lanka
… Lanka teacher education system is nurtured by Buddhist philosophy. Moreover, the entire education system expects 'respect' and 'guru' status. Even though teachers understood the theory of learner centredness, they prefer to impart certain changes in implementing it in the Sri Lankan context. …
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Felt senses of self and no-self in therapy
… patterns, to point out conceptual confusions. Buddhist philosophy and practice are discussed as methods of undoing such conceptual confusions in order to relieve suffering, with self as an independent, stable, substantial entity being the primary example of such a confusion. Dualism is …
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Recalling the Lineage: Practices of Recitation and Renunciation at Three Thai Bhikkhuni Monasteries, Chiang Mai, Nakhon Pathom, Songkhla
… fieldwork with three communities of Thai Buddhist female monks (bhikkhuni). Because neither the Thai government nor the Supreme Sangha Council, the monastic body of Thailand, will grant them legitimacy, bhikkhuni build networks outside official state channels. Moreover, they claim that by …
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Radical dialectics in the experimental poetry of Berssenbrugge, Hejinian, Harryman, Weiner, and Scalapino
… a wide range of fields, including ancient Indian Buddhist philosophy, cognitive science, feminist psychoanalysis, and phenomenology. In their various ways, these thinkers share, along with the poets with whom I place them side by side, the common project of transforming a dualistic view of the …
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‘Reimagining a self’: an evocative autoethnography of living alongside Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME)
… Facilitative of Transformative Change, and the Buddhist philosophy of the Four Noble Truths. Too often people with illness are the passive subjects of investigation by researchers who do not have experience of illness. An autoethnographic approach helps to redress this imbalance and generate …
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A Grounded Theory Exploration of the Impact of Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) on Conceptualisation of and Relationship with Selfhood
The Buddhist philosophy from which mindfulness-based approaches originate proposes a system of understanding whereby inherent suffering stems from attachment to a rigid and unchanging concept of self. Though this notion of selfhood is afforded centrality within such traditions, as well as having …
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Exploring Emptiness: Beckett and Buddhism via Arthur Schopenhauer
… Arthur Schopenhauer’s understanding of Eastern philosophy. Beckett read Schopenhauer closely in the 1930s, late 1970s and early 1980s, taking notes from his work in the so-called ‘Whoroscope Notebook’ of the 1930s and the later ‘Sottisier Notebooks’ respectively. However, during the 1940s till …
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