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Buddhism on the Brain
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Buddhism on the Brain

@article{knight-jonathan2004-buddhism-on-brain, title={{B}uddhism on the {B}rain}, author={Jonathan Knight}, publisher={Nature Portfolio}, year=2004, month=dec, journal={Nature}, volume=432, number=7018, pages={670--670}, keywords={roots,modern}, doi={10.1038/432670a}, openalex_id={W2074927951}, ranking={rank3}, url={https://www.nature.com/articles/432670a.pdf} } Source link
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Adani group | The rocky road ahead
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Adani group | The rocky road ahead

A US court's allegations of bribery in solar power contracts and US markets watchdog SEC's charges of concealing wrongdoings have jolted Gautam Adani's business empire. Even as he mounts a strong defence against the indictment, the group faces a crisis of investor confidence that may impact its growth plansISSUE DATE: Dec 9, 2024 | UPDATED: Nov 30, 2024 11:03 IST Gautam Adani’s biographer calls him ‘destiny’s child’. The 62-year-old chairman of the Ahmedabad-based $30 billion (Rs 2.5 lakh crore) Adani Group has escaped accidents, a kidnapping bid at gunpoint in 1998 and the November 2008 terrorist attack on the Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai. He also overcame accusations from the US shortseller Hindenburg in January 2023 that the group companies inflated share prices through shell firms and ro...
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Masahiro Mori’s Buddhist Philosophy of Robot
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Masahiro Mori’s Buddhist Philosophy of Robot

@article{kimura-takeshi2018-masahiro-moris-buddhist-philosophy-of, title={{M}asahiro {M}ori’s {B}uddhist {P}hilosophy of {R}obot}, author={Takeshi Kimura}, publisher={De Gruyter Open}, year=2018, month=apr, journal={Paladyn Journal of Behavioral Robotics}, volume=9, number=1, pages={72--81}, keywords={robotics,dialogue}, openalex_id={W2806158330}, ranking={rank2}, url={https://doi.org/10.1515/pjbr-2018-0004} } Source link
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Russian Blues Reveal Effects of Language on Color Discrimination
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Russian Blues Reveal Effects of Language on Color Discrimination

We found that Russian speakers were faster to discriminate two colors when they fell into different linguistic categories in Russian than when they were from the same linguistic category. Moreover, this category advantage was eliminated by a verbal, but not a spatial, dual task. These results demonstrate that (i) categories in language affect performance on simple perceptual color tasks and (ii) the effect of language is online (and can be disrupted by verbal interference). Source link
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Cetasikas
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Cetasikas

@book{van-gorkom-nina1999-cetasikas, title={{C}etasikas}, author={Nina van Gorkom}, publisher={Zolag}, address={London}, year=1999, pagecount=296, keywords={abhidhamma,feeling}, ranking={rank3}, url={https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/monographs/cetasikas_van-gorkom-nina} } Source link
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One’s Own Good And Another’s
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One’s Own Good And Another’s

@article{maurice-david1961-ones-own-good, title={{O}ne’s {O}wn {G}ood {A}nd {A}nother’s}, author={David Maurice}, publisher={The Buddhist Publication Society}, address={Kandy}, year=1961, journal={Bodhi Leaves}, number=7, pagecount=13, keywords={dialogue,engaged,philosophy}, ranking={rank2}, url={https://www.bps.lk/olib/bl/bl007_Maurice_Ones-Own-Good--And-An%E2%94%AC%D0%BDothers.html} } Source link
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Buddhist Tales From Sanskrit
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Buddhist Tales From Sanskrit

Once upon a time, the Bodhisattva was born in a distinguished brahmin family… A retelling of: the Rsipañcaka Jātaka the Sārthavāha Jātaka the Sarvamdada Jātaka the Matsaranand Āvadāna and the Bhavalubdhak Āvadāna from the Avadānasārasamuccaya and the Jātakmālāvadāna-sūtra. Source link
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Sacred Heights in the Topography of Flatlands: Ovaa Kurgans in the Kalmyk Buddhist Landscape
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Sacred Heights in the Topography of Flatlands: Ovaa Kurgans in the Kalmyk Buddhist Landscape

Continuously enfolding the lives, activities, values and times of all its previous inhabitants, the landscape is simultaneously unfolding to its current inhabitant or observer as a corpus of heterogeneous narratives – myths, legends, historical accounts or individual life-histories attached to it. […] ‘Landscape is time materializing.’ Source link
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Culture and Point of View
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Culture and Point of View

@article{nisbett-richard-e-et-al2003-culture-and-point-of-view, title={{C}ulture and {P}oint of {V}iew}, author={Richard E. Nisbett and Takahiko Masuda}, publisher={National Academies Press}, address={Washington D.C.}, year=2003, month=sep, journal={The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences}, volume=100, number=19, pages={11163--11170}, keywords={places,culture,intercultural,perception}, doi={10.1073/pnas.1934527100}, openalex_id={W2132107536}, ranking={rank4}, url={https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/91926/1/culture_point_view.pdf} } Source link
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The Function of Silence in Āgama Literature
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The Function of Silence in Āgama Literature

@article{analayo2023-function-of-silence-in-agama, title={{T}he {F}unction of {S}ilence in \textit{Āgama} {L}iterature}, author={Bhikkhu Anālayo}, publisher={Soka Gokkai International}, address={Tokyo}, year=2023, month=mar, journal={The Annual Report of the International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology}, volume=26, pages={67--76}, keywords={hermeneutics,silence,koan}, ranking={rank3}, url={https://www.buddhismuskunde.uni-hamburg.de/pdf/5-personen/analayo/functionsilence.pdf} } Source link
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Affective Entanglements: Human-Nonhuman Relations in Buddhist Ecologies of Feeling
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Affective Entanglements: Human-Nonhuman Relations in Buddhist Ecologies of Feeling

… this article explores how the early Buddhist teaching can challenge and enrich how we think of persons and bodies in relation to other beings and environments. Through a discussion of the powerful emotion of fear and the importance of vulnerability, the article develops thoughts on how Buddhist emotional practices as practices of care can inspire new approaches in today’s times of escalating ecological crisis and acute vulnerability in coexisting and intersecting human and nonhuman pluriworlds. Source link
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Dependent Arising and Interdependence
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Dependent Arising and Interdependence

… in Huayan philosophy in particular the notion of interconnectedness or interdependence arose, according to which all phenomena relate to each other in one way or another. Despite its traction in the contemporary setting, this notion needs to be recognized as a later development that is by no means identical with the basic Buddhist teaching on dependent arising. Source link
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Remembering the Ancestors
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Remembering the Ancestors

@misc{pluralism2013-remembering-ancestors, category={essays}, title={{R}emembering the {A}ncestors}, author={The Pluralism Project}, publisher={Harvard University}, address={Boston}, year=2013, pagecount=3, keywords={form}, ranking={rank3}, url={https://pluralism.org/remembering-the-ancestors} } Source link
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Building a Pure Land on Earth
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Building a Pure Land on Earth

@misc{pluralism2013-pure-land, category={essays}, title={{B}uilding a {P}ure {L}and on {E}arth}, author={The Pluralism Project}, publisher={Harvard University}, address={Boston}, year=2013, pagecount=3, keywords={form,east-asian,ethics}, ranking={rank3}, url={https://pluralism.org/building-a-pure-land-on-earth} } Source link
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From Street Gangs to Temple
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From Street Gangs to Temple

@misc{pluralism2013-street-gangs-to-temple, category={essays}, title={{F}rom {S}treet {G}angs to {T}emple}, author={The Pluralism Project}, publisher={Harvard University}, address={Boston}, year=2013, pagecount=3, keywords={form,cambodian,american}, ranking={rank3}, url={https://pluralism.org/from-street-gangs-to-temple} } Source link
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Creating a Mandala
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Creating a Mandala

@misc{pluralism2013-mandala, category={essays}, title={{C}reating a {M}andala}, author={The Pluralism Project}, publisher={Harvard University}, address={Boston}, year=2013, pagecount=2, keywords={form,tibetan}, ranking={rank3}, url={https://pluralism.org/creating-a-mandala} } Source link
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Chanting the Sutras
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Chanting the Sutras

@misc{pluralism2013-chanting, category={essays}, title={{C}hanting the {S}utras}, author={The Pluralism Project}, publisher={Harvard University}, address={Boston}, year=2013, pagecount=2, keywords={form,meditation}, ranking={rank3}, url={https://pluralism.org/chanting-the-sutras} } Source link
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Sesshin: A Meditation Retreat
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Sesshin: A Meditation Retreat

@misc{pluralism2013-sesshin, category={essays}, title={{S}esshin: {A} {M}editation {R}etreat}, author={The Pluralism Project}, publisher={Harvard University}, address={Boston}, year=2013, pagecount=2, keywords={form}, ranking={rank3}, url={https://pluralism.org/sesshin-a-meditation-retreat} } Source link
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One Hand Clapping?
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One Hand Clapping?

@misc{pluralism2013-one-hand-clapping, category={essays}, title={{O}ne {H}and {C}lapping?}, author={The Pluralism Project}, publisher={Harvard University}, address={Boston}, year=2013, pagecount=2, keywords={form,east-asian}, ranking={rank3}, url={https://pluralism.org/one-hand-clapping} } Source link
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Taiwanese Nuns and Education Issues in Contemporary Taiwan
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Taiwanese Nuns and Education Issues in Contemporary Taiwan

These scholarly nuns elevate the standards of their Buddhist academies and use their original academic specializations to expand the educational curriculum of their school. The role of scholarly nuns in contemporary Taiwan exemplifies that Buddhism provides educational resources for women, as educational resources enhance women’s engagement in Buddhism. Source link
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India-China trade | Decoupling dilemma
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India-China trade | Decoupling dilemma

The meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese president Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Russia in October may have signalled a thaw in border tensions, but India has been exercising caution in bilateral trade relations, having imposed a series of anti-dumping duties on imports from its northern neighbour this year. The country has also vowed to keep necessary checks on foreign direct investment (FDI) from China, a stance it took to protect national interests following the border stand-off at the icy heights of Ladakh’s Galwan in 2020. But with China overtaking the US as India’s largest trading partner in the first half of this fiscal, experts feel, the Modi regime is facing an uphill task. Source link
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Book of Verses of Elder Bhikkhunis: A Contemporary Translation of the Therīgāthāpāḷi
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Book of Verses of Elder Bhikkhunis: A Contemporary Translation of the Therīgāthāpāḷi

In this book, both Pāli originals and English translations are provided so it’s appropriate for those who want to learn Pāli or just read the translations. A full Pāli-English Glossary, detailed Endnotes, and other indices will help the interested reader to learn more about the elder bhikkhunis, their circumstances, and their efforts. Source link
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They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45
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They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45

It was what most Germans wanted—or, under pressure, came to want. They wanted it; they got it; and they liked it. I came back home a little afraid for my own country: afraid of what it might want, and get… An American journalist befriends ten Nazis after World War 2 in order to understand what drove so many Germans to The Party. Source link
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Himalayan Buddhism as Human Geological Agency: Rethinking the Novelty of “The Anthropocene”
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Himalayan Buddhism as Human Geological Agency: Rethinking the Novelty of “The Anthropocene”

This article uses a Himalayan Buddhist lens to critically interrogate a fundamental premise of ‘the Anthropocene’—that the epoch commemorates a ‘newfound’ capacity of humans to mobilise Earth forces. Rather, Himalayan Buddhism has long held that humans wield geological agency, mobilised through relationships with territorial landscape deities, which inflict severe weather in retaliation for human moral infractions. Offering an alternative model of anthropogenic climate change, Buddhist and Indigenous lifeworlds challenge Western convictions that ‘the Anthropocene’ is a novel planetary epoch. Since the term has gained a vibrant discursive life beyond geology, its cultural assumptions—rather than biophysical thresholds—are primarily evaluated, revealing an extension of Eurocentric colon...
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