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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Review Free Why Science Hasnt Disproved Free Will Alfred R Mele Prabuddha Bharata September 2017 in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThe argument against free will could as well have been eternal. In this short but incisive and analytical book, Alfred R Mele, a professor of philosophy, successfully and clearly critiques the rationale against free will put forward by psychologists and neuroscientists.
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Review Finders Keepers Robert Arnett Prabuddha Bharata September 2017 in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoA book designed for children with attractive illustrations, this volume brings out the spirit of India through the recounting of an incident that happened in India; where a boy—not wealthy of resources—returns a wallet he found and cannot even think of accepting a reward for his good act. Awarded the ‘Mom’s Choice Best Educational Picture Book’,…[Read more]
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Bodhisattvas of the Forest and the Formation of the Mahayana Daniel Boucher Book Review Prabuddha Bharata August 2014 in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoBodhisattvas of the Forest and the Formation of the Mahayana Daniel Boucher Book Review Prabuddha Bharata August 2014
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited The Mahabharata / Srimad Bhagavata – in the Poet’s Own Words by Pandit A M Srinivasachariar Book Review Prabuddha Bharata June 2010 in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThe Mahabharata / Srimad Bhagavata – in the Poet’s Own Words by Pandit A M Srinivasachariar Book Review Prabuddha Bharata June 2010
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Shigeki Moro deposited Gesshu 月珠 (1849): Inmyō shōrimon ron giyō 因明正理門論義要 in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years agoA commentary of Yinming zhenglimen lun 因明正理門論 (A Chinese translation of Nyāya-mukha) written by Gesshu 月珠 (1795-1856), a scholar priest of Shin Buddhism.
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James A Benn deposited Religious Studies 3UU3 Buddhism in East Asia McMaster University Winter 2019 in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 1 month agoSyllabus for my course 3UU3, Buddhism in East Asia planned for Winter term 2019
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James A Benn deposited Religious Studies 2MT3 Asian Meditation Traditions December 2019 in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 1 month agoThis is the version of the syllabus for Asian Meditation Traditions at the end of the first term in which I offered it–Fall 2018.
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James A Benn deposited Religious Studies 712 Topics in the Study of Chinese Buddhist Texts I: Translated Texts Nirvana Sutra McMaster University, Term II 2019 in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 1 month agoDraft version of syllabus for graduate seminar on Nirvana Sutra
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Suzanne Newcombe deposited Guest Editorial in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThis special issue of Religions of South Asia is born out of this expanding area of study and collaboration between contemporary practitioners and established academic methods of study. Most of articles in this volume were first presented at an international ‘Yoga Darśana, Yoga Sādhana’ conference hosted in Kraków, Poland in May 2016. The Krakow…[Read more]
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James A Benn deposited Religious Studies 2MT3 Asian Meditation Traditions in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThis course is an introduction to the theory and practice of meditation systems in Asia taught at McMaster University in Fall 2018
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Amod Lele deposited Ethical revaluation in the thought of Śāntideva in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoThis dissertation examines the idea of ethical revaluation — taking things we normally see as good for our flourishing and seeing them as neutral or bad, and vice versa — in the Mahāyāna Buddhist thinker Śāntideva. It shows how Śāntideva’s thought on the matter is more coherent than it might otherwise appear, first by examining the consistency…[Read more]
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Amod Lele deposited Beyond enacted experiences in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoKen Wilber’s Integral Theory insists that valid knowledge must be derived from paradigms: sets of injunctions and social practices that lead to replicable experiences. Wilber claims that the theory still includes the essentials of premodern traditions, because the essentials of those traditions consist of a phenomenological core of practices l…[Read more]
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James A Benn deposited Seminar on Chinese Religions in Literature and Performance in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years agoSyllabus for a graduate seminar on Chinese Religions at McMaster University Term II 2017-2018
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Gregory Scott deposited Conversion by the Book in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoIn this dissertation I argue that print culture acted as a catalyst for change among Buddhists in modern China. Through examining major publication institutions, publishing projects, and their managers and contributors from the late nineteenth century to the 1920s, I show that the expansion of the scope and variety of printed works, as well as new…[Read more]
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James A Benn deposited recent Scholarship in Buddhist Studies Graduate seminar in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 4 months agoGraduate seminar in Buddhist Studies at McMaster University
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Marek Kalmus deposited Tybet – koniec legendy? / Tibet – end of the Legend? in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 4 months agoTibet – end of the legend
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James A Benn deposited One Mountain, Two Traditions: Buddhist and Taoist Claims on Zhongnan shan in Medieval Times in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoarticle about Mount Zhongnan in the Tang dynasty
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Natalia Elvira Astoreca started the topic Enquiry: Manjushri and writing (?) in the discussion
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoHello everyone!
I was hoping that someone could answer a question for me and help me out a little. I am a PhD student in Classics with very little background on Buddhism. I am preparing a series of blog posts on gods and myths related to writing in different cultures of the world and I read somewhere that the bodhisattva Manjushri is somehow…[Read more]
