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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Theravada"”.
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Paths to enlightenment: Theravada Buddhism in upper Burma
… 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 relationships between …
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Northern Thai Theravada Folk Buddhism through the Eyes of Buddhist Background Believers
NORTHERN THAI THERAVADA FOLK BUDDHISM THROUGH THE EYES OF BUDDHIST BACKGROUND BELIEVERS Nicholas Blaine Walburn, PhD The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2018 Chair: Dr. George H. Martin The research in this dissertation reveals that the testimonies of Northern Thai Buddhist background …
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Digital and Interactive Media Analysis of Myths and Traditions Expressed in Thai Fairground Art
… moral values and demonstrate a coherent Theravada worldview that is uniquely Thai. This thesis explores the popular manifestations of such phenomena at the intersection of traditional folk beliefs and practices, popular entertainment, Thai official/ royal high culture and confessional …
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Unravelling rituals, examining biases: a Christian’s inquiry into the Cambodian Buddhist custom of Pchumben
… in the anthropology of ritual and religion, Theravada studies, and Christian mission.
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Tradition and Change: Two Buddhisms in the Bible Belt Sharing Common Ground Through Adaptation
… a process of Americanization. As a result of Theravada Buddhism’s relocation, change in Buddhism can also be seen in the American form, which is believed by many to becoming its own unique school of Buddhism. This can be found occurring in the regions of south central Kentucky and middle …
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The walking Buddha: the premier image of Sukhothai classicism
… Pagan, combined with the religious traditions of Theravada Buddhism and the rise of the monarchy, created the needed stimulus for artistic growth. Religious motifs and themes popularized during this classical phase supplied the spiritual link to Sukhothai's numerous vassal states, which were …
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The Sinhalese Buddhist Diaspora in the United Kingdom: Negotiating Sinhalese Identity
… nation and Sri Lanka as the guardian of his pure Theravada Buddhist doctrine. The research also includes a review of discourses on diasporic theory to identify attributes or common features of diaspora in order to fully appreciate the diasporic qualities of the Sinhalese community in the UK. This …
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De villkorligt frigivna : relationen mellan munkar och lekfolk i ett nutida Thailand
… on laypeople's demands on contemporary Thai Theravada sangha. In the aftermath of the economic breakdown in 1997, an intense discussion concerning the moral status of the sangha took place. The religious interests and demands clearly differ between different groups. What still seems to unify …
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Sinhala folk music : its vocal traditions and stylistic nuances
… Chapter 2 travels through the influence of Theravada Buddhism on Sinhala folk music and its conservative outlook on the arts, the acceptance and application of drumming in various contexts and accompanying instrumentation used in Sinhala folk. Chapter 3 observes the disbanded social ranking …
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Sinhala folk music : its vocal traditions and stylistic nuances
… Chapter 2 travels through the influence of Theravada Buddhism on Sinhala folk music and its conservative outlook on the arts, the acceptance and application of drumming in various contexts and accompanying instrumentation used in Sinhala folk. Chapter 3 observes the disbanded social ranking …
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Intrinsic patterns in the history of religious change from early Hindu traditions to contemporary Mahayana Buddhism : an application of Cumpsty's theory of religion
… analysis of early Buddhism, the development of Theravada and its academic characterisation, as an example of "allocation" as a bridging and change mechanism. Chapter four offers an analysis ·of the Mahayana in China and Japan. It gives reasons for its missionary success, and provides three …
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Parapsychology and Buddhism – to afford a comparison between descriptions of psychic experiences in Buddhist works and in parapsychological research
The presented research project is aimed at affording a comparison between the description of psychic experiences in Buddhist works and Parapsychological research. As such, this thesis scholastically outlines the Buddhist Pāli Canon’s perspective on the phenomenon of psychic power or psi. This …
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Orient
… consciousness. This, in “the east,” in the Thai Theravada tradition, is called “karuna,” a de-centered state of radical compassion that tunes its focus beyond the borders of the individual, an act of attention akin perhaps to the consciousness that Levinas, in “the west,” refers to as “the …