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Buddhism and Law
Miguel Alvarez Ortega
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2016-09-28
Buddhism and LawIntroductionThe title “Buddhism and Law” refers to an incipient interdisciplinary research area exploring the interactions and overlap...
Buddhism and Marxism
George D. Bond, Michael Nichols
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2017-02-28
Buddhism and MarxismIntroductionThough Buddhism as a religious movement far predates the sociopolitical force known as Marxism, a few factors have led...
Buddhism and Medicine in Japan
Anna Andreeva
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2018-07-24
Buddhism and Medicine in JapanIntroductionJapan’s long engagement with Buddhist ideas about rebirth, the human body, and healing has resulted in diver...
Buddhism and Modern Literature
Kimberly Beek
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2016-09-28
Buddhism and Modern LiteratureIntroductionBuddhism intersects with modern literature at a multitude of junctions. In all its various forms, schools, a...
Buddhism and Motherhood
Vanessa R. Sasson
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2021-02-24
Buddhism and MotherhoodIntroductionMotherhood is a relational concept by its very nature. Biologically, it is tied to the children a woman produces. I...
Buddhism and Nationalism
Volker Grabowsky
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2018-01-11
Buddhism and NationalismIntroductionTheoretical works pertaining to the birth and development of modern nationalism have a strong focus on Europe and ...
Buddhism and Politics
Matthew J. Moore
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2018-01-11
Buddhism and PoliticsIntroductionPolitics has always been part of Buddhism. The earliest Buddhists texts, the Tipiṭaka, contain numerous references to...
Buddhism in Australia
Michelle Barker
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2021-09-22
Buddhism in AustraliaIntroductionBuddhism comprised 2.4 percent of the Australian population at the most recent census in 2016. While reflection on Bu...
Buddhism in Latin America
Frank Usarski
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2021-03-24
Buddhism in Latin AmericaIntroductionThe study of Buddhism in Latin America, which had been lacking in other Western countries, has improved considera...
Buddhist Art and Architecture in Korea
Maya Stiller
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2020-01-15
Buddhist Art and Architecture in KoreaIntroductionThe study of Korean Buddhist art and architecture is a relatively young field compared to the long-h...
Buddhist Art and Architecture in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia
Pattaratorn Chirapravati, John Listopad
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
Buddhist Art and Architecture in Southeast Asia and Sri LankaIntroductionAccording to the Sinhalese chronicles the Dipavaṃsa (Chronicle of the Island)...
Buddhist Hermeneutics
Richard Nance
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Buddhist Hermeneutics Introduction Etymologically derived from the Greek ἑρμηνεύειν, to interpret, the term “hermeneutics” is often presumed t...
Buddhist Ordination
Jason A. Carbine, Patrick Kellycooper
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2016-09-28
Buddhist OrdinationIntroductionIn Buddhism, ordinations are the ceremonies in which men and women become members of the Buddhist monastic order, or sa...
Buddhist Statecraft
James A. Benn, Stephanie Balkwill
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2021-05-26
Buddhist StatecraftIntroductionIn the modern day, the connection between Buddhism and statecraft is readily seen in the Theravada monarchies of Southe...
Buddhist Theories of Causality (karma, pratītyasamutpāda, hetu, pratyaya)
Tadeusz Skorupski
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2016-05-26
Buddhist Theories of Causality (Karma, Pratītyasamutpāda, Hetu, Pratyaya)IntroductionThis entry covers four models of causality: karma, pratītyasamutp...
Buddhist Thought and Western Philosophy
Jin Y. Park, Leah Kalmanson
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Buddhist Thought and Western PhilosophyIntroductionBuddhist–Western comparative philosophy is a relatively new field. Most work in this area has been ...
Buddhist Thought, Embryology in
Anna Andreeva
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2016-09-28
Embryology in Buddhist ThoughtIntroductionIdeas about the origins of life and the development of the human body in utero have been part of Buddhist di...
Buddhist-Christian Dialogue
Kristin Largen
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
Buddhist-Christian Dialogue Introduction The field of Buddhist-Christian dialogue is relatively new, having its formal genesis in roughly the...
Buddho-Daoism
Livia Kohn
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
Buddho-DaoismIntroductionBuddhism reached China in the early centuries of the Common Era, but it did not have a major impact on Chinese religion and s...
Cambodian Buddhism
John Marston
Subject: Buddhism »
Date Added: 2014-01-30
Cambodian Buddhism Introduction The study of Cambodian Buddhism has less clearly coalesced as a field than studies of Buddhism in the other ma...
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