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The Friendly Yeti

Most images of yetis in Western popular culture and scholarly literature portray them as secular, predatory monsters. These representations overlook […]

Daniel Capper 8 May 2018 8 May 2018 bodhisattva, Buddhism, phenomenology, Schutz, Tibetan religions, yeti
Devotion to Tibetan Lamas, Self Psychology, and Healing in the United States

This essay offers an alternative, self psychological model for understanding the possible healing dynamics of the guru-disciple relationship. Previous psychological […]

Daniel Capper 8 May 2018 8 May 2018 guru, healing, self psychology, Tibetan Buddhism, United States
Enchantment with Tibetan Lamas in the United States

This article explores the relationships of non-Tibetan American disciples with Tibetan spiritual teachers (lamas) in terms of theory, practice, and […]

Daniel Capper 8 May 2018 8 May 2018 compassionate social action, guru devotion, Tibetan Buddhism, United States
Scientific empathy, American buddhism, and the ethnography of religion

The expansion of the use of ethnography in the study of religion has led to substantial methodological confusion. The reflexive […]

Daniel Capper 8 May 2018 8 May 2018 Buddhism, empathy, ethnography, research ethics
Animism among Western Buddhists

Myriad instances of animist phenomena abound in the Buddhist world, but due to the outdated concepts of thinkers such as […]

Daniel Capper 8 May 2018 8 May 2018 animism, Buddhism, ecology, personhood, vegetarianism
Groundhog Oracles and Their Forebears

Groundhog Day animal weather forecasting ceremonies continue to proliferate around the United States despite a lack of public confidence in […]

Daniel Capper 8 May 2018 8 May 2018 animal veneration, Groundhog Day, mourning, oracles, relationships with nature
The Maternal Personhood of Cattle and Plants at a Hindu Center in the United States

Religious experiences with sacred nonhuman natural beings considered to be “persons” remain only vaguely understood. This essay provides a measure […]

Daniel Capper 8 May 2018 8 May 2018 cow protection, personhood, plant veneration, psychoanalysis, selfobject
Learning Love from a Tiger: Approaches to Nature in an American Buddhist Monastery

In current debates about Buddhist approaches to the non-human natural world, studies describe Buddhism variously as anthropocentric, bio-centric or eco-centric. […]

Daniel Capper 8 May 2018 8 May 2018 American Buddhism, anthropocentrism, ecocentrism, Vietnamese Buddhism
Amici Curiae – Caso Comunidad de Laguna Larga, Guatemala (Amparo 01010-2017 -00214)

Amici Curiae presentado por el Centro de Estudios de Derechos Humanos de la Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán. Caso Comunidad de Laguna […]

Centro de Estudios de Derechos Humanos 29 August 2018 29 August 2018 derecho a la vivienda, desplazamientos forzado interno, Guatemala, medio ambiente
Manual: Derechos Humanos para todos

Estudiantes de la Facultad de Psicología, han decidido posicionarse ante la ola de desinformación que hay entorno al tema del […]

Centro de Estudios de Derechos Humanos 30 May 2019 30 May 2019
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