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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 1 day, 9 hours 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 1 day, 9 hours 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 1 day, 9 hours agoDraft version of syllabus for graduate seminar on Nirvana Sutra
Suzanne Newcombe deposited Guest Editorial in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 3 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 3 months, 1 week agoThis course is an introduction to the theory and practice of meditation systems in Asia taught at McMaster University in Fall 2018
Amod Lele deposited Ethical revaluation in the thought of Śāntideva in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 6 months, 3 weeks 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]
Amod Lele deposited Beyond enacted experiences in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 6 months, 3 weeks 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 11 months, 4 weeks agoSyllabus for a graduate seminar on Chinese Religions at McMaster University Term II 2017-2018
Martino Dibeltulo Concu deposited The Revival of Tantrism: Tibetan Buddhism and Modern China in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 2 months agoThis dissertation considers how Tantrism, a ritual tradition vanished in India and in China, but preserved in modern Japan and Tibet, became a component of the revival of Chinese Buddhism between the two World Wars. Tantrism became appealing to revivalists who, in China’s time of internal war and foreign invasion, sought to recover this lost t…[Read more]
Gregory Scott deposited Conversion by the Book in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 2 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 1 year, 3 months agoGraduate seminar in Buddhist Studies at McMaster University
Marek Kalmus deposited Tybet – koniec legendy? / Tibet – end of the Legend? in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 3 months agoTibet – end of the legend
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Martino Dibeltulo Concu deposited Buddhism, Philosophy, History. On Eugène Burnouf’s Simple Sūtras in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 3 months agoPhilosophy has long become a key term in the study of Buddhism, defining the moral and rational essence of the Buddha’s teaching, emblematic of its Indian origins. In this essay, I suggest that the relation of Buddhism and philosophy, which prior to the mid-nineteenth century was framed as the relation of the Religion of Fo to the cult of v…[Read more]
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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 1 year, 5 months agoarticle about Mount Zhongnan in the Tang dynasty
Natalia Elvira Astoreca started the topic Enquiry: Manjushri and writing (?) in the discussion
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 5 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]
