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The most important number in the world
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The most important number in the world

@article{walsh-bryan2025-most-important-number, title={{T}he most important number in the world}, author={Bryan Walsh}, year=2025, month=mar, journal={Vox}, pagecount=4, keywords={time,childhood,parenting,progress,statistics,state,history-of-medicine,health}, ranking={rank3}, url={https://archive.is/TZg72} } Source link
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Buddhism under a Military Regime: The Iron Heel in Burma
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Buddhism under a Military Regime: The Iron Heel in Burma

Buddhism in Burma is involved in a continuing and intense struggle against a repressive military regime. While much continues to unfold, the struggle between the Burmese military and its Buddhist subjects has, regrettably, only deepened in the decades since this article was first published. The only major change in the interim has been that the xenophobic aspect—whose absence Matthews here commended—did indeed, unfortunately, arise. Source link
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Buddhist Militarism Beyond Texts: The Importance of Ritual During the Sri Lankan Civil War
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Buddhist Militarism Beyond Texts: The Importance of Ritual During the Sri Lankan Civil War

What happens to the meaning of Buddhist rituals in military spaces? Do the military confines and the political context alter the meaning of “non-violent” rituals? Can they become “violent” rituals? During the Sri Lankan civil war, some extremist Buddhist monks espoused an explicitly violent “just war” ideology. While the majority of Sinhala monks did not go that far, they still demonstrated their support indirectly, through e.g. the chanting of pirits before major battles. Source link
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The Amulet Culture of Thailand
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The Amulet Culture of Thailand

@article{mcbain-paul2021-amulet-culture, title={{T}he {A}mulet {C}ulture of {T}hailand}, author={Paul McBain}, address={Bangkok}, year=2021, journal={The Journal of the Siam Society}, volume=112, number=2, pages={7--15}, keywords={thai,modern,bart,media}, ranking={rank4}, url={https://so06.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/pub_jss/article/view/279197/185967} } Source link
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The Dhammakāya Text Genre and Its Significance for Tai-Khmer Buddhism and Modern Marginalisation
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The Dhammakāya Text Genre and Its Significance for Tai-Khmer Buddhism and Modern Marginalisation

I examine a corpus of documents belonging to the Dhammakāya text genre and its different functions, revealing how a single genre can, in fact, fulfil functions from meditation, on the one hand, to consecrations and protective chanting on the other. I then conclude that the disappearance of the Dhammakāya text genre from Central Thai practice is further evidence for the suppression of Siam’s “boran”, or pre-reform, Buddhism in response to modernist concerns about canonicity and textual authenticity. Source link
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Theory and Practice of Mantra in the Esoteric Theravāda Mahānikāya Tradition
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Theory and Practice of Mantra in the Esoteric Theravāda Mahānikāya Tradition

body unfolds a set of correspondences between his/her 32 bodily formations, the 32 consonants of the Pāli syllabary giving origin to those bodily formations, the 32 contemplative mūlakammaṭṭhāna and the 32 marks of a Buddha’s body. The key factor linking those correspondences is mūla-kammaṭṭhāna How Tantric elements came to inform a premodern, Cambodian meditation practice. Source link
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Sri Lanka and Tibet
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Sri Lanka and Tibet

Tantra finally gained official recognition and patronage during the reign of Sena 1 (833-853) who, we are told, had taken the bodhisattva vow. This monarch was interested enough in new trends in Buddhism to establish an ecumenical institute named Virankurarama, where 25 monks from each of the four major sects in Sri Lanka could study the new ideas coming from India. While we usually think of Sri Lankan and Tibetan Buddhism as unrelated, this essay highlights that they have, in fact, had intermittent contact over the centuries. Source link
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Sōtō Zen in a Japanese Town: Field Notes on a Once-Every-Thirty-Three-Years Kannon Festival
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Sōtō Zen in a Japanese Town: Field Notes on a Once-Every-Thirty-Three-Years Kannon Festival

Someone who experiences a kaicho as a child will have attained full status as an adultby the time of the next kaicho, and will have become an elder member of the community by the time of the one after that. […] The emotional significance of this time frame is not immediately obvious, but becomes clear through conversations with residents of Yokkamachi… Source link
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Perceiving
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Perceiving

@article{albright-thomas2015-perceiving, title={{P}erceiving}, author={Thomas Albright}, publisher={MIT}, address={Cambridge, MA}, year=2015, journal={Dædalus}, volume=144, number=1, pages={22--41}, keywords={feeling,perception,origination}, ranking={rank4}, url={https://doi.org/10.1162/DAED_a_00315} } Source link
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Buddhism in a Dark Age: Cambodian Monks under Pol Pot
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Buddhism in a Dark Age: Cambodian Monks under Pol Pot

I intend that this offering will, however imperfect, stand as a memorial to the many Cambodian Buddhist monks and laypeople, both named and unknown, who lost their lives or had their futures traumatically altered by the tragedy that overwhelmed their country in the 1970s. Source link
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Traversing the Nenbutsu: The Power of Ritual in Contemporary Japanese Buddhism
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Traversing the Nenbutsu: The Power of Ritual in Contemporary Japanese Buddhism

@article{gillson-gwendolyn2019-power-of-ritual-in-japanese-buddhism, title={{T}raversing the {N}enbutsu: {T}he {P}ower of {R}itual in {C}ontemporary {J}apanese {B}uddhism}, author={Gwendolyn Gillson}, address={Nagoya, Japan}, year=2019, month=jul, journal={The Japanese Journal of Religious Studies}, volume=46, number=1, pages={31--51}, keywords={japanese,ritual,form,pureland}, doi={10.18874/jjrs.46.1.2019.31-51}, openalex_id={W2954456476}, ranking={rank3}, url={https://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/journal/6/article/1494/pdf/download} } Source link
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Satori and the Moral Dimension of Enlightenment
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Satori and the Moral Dimension of Enlightenment

The essay asks what an enlightened moral sensitivity might require, and concludes in challenging the Zen tradition to consider reengaging the Mahayana Buddhist practices of reflection out of which Zen originated in order to assess the possible role of morality in its thought and practice This essay responds to Brian Victoria’s critique of Zen social ethics by attempting to answer his question about Japanese Zen masters before and during the Second World War: how could they seemingly act without moral conviction in confronting the crisis of their time? How could Zen manifest itself in anything less than morally admirable actions? By assessing the role of morality in Zen tradition, the paper considers how the Zen tradition might extend itself in response to the moral impasse that these...
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Ethnic Buddhist Temples and the Korean Diaspora in Japan
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Ethnic Buddhist Temples and the Korean Diaspora in Japan

@article{tajima-tadaatsu2016-ethnic-buddhist-temples-and-korean-diaspora-in-japan, title={{E}thnic {B}uddhist {T}emples and the {K}orean {D}iaspora in {J}apan}, author={Tadaatsu Tajima}, publisher={The Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies}, year=2016, month=nov, journal={The Journal of the Oxford Center for Buddhist Studies}, volume=11, pages={132--154}, keywords={japan,migration,east-asian-religions}, openalex_id={W2583855224}, ranking={rank2}, url={https://www.jocbs.org/index.php/jocbs/article/download/153/176} } Source link
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Contracting for Compassion in Japanese Buddhism
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Contracting for Compassion in Japanese Buddhism

Without a coercive village structure to enforce giving, the low-tension temples found themselves without their effective retainer. With the first-best contract unavailable, many temples have turned to fee-for-service arrangements of which the abortion-related ritual is merely the most notorious. Ironically, the new environment presents an entirely different challenge: temples now find themselves competing with internet-based priest-dispatch services. Source link
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Embodied Objects: Chūjōhime’s Hair Embroideries and the Transformation of the Female Body in Premodern Japan
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Embodied Objects: Chūjōhime’s Hair Embroideries and the Transformation of the Female Body in Premodern Japan

Women bundled together and stitched their hair into the most sacred parts of the image—the deity’s hair or robes and Sanskrit seed-syllables—as a means to accrue merit for themselves or for a loved one. This paper focuses on a set of embroidered Japanese Buddhist images said to incorporate the hair of Chūjōhime (753–781), a legendary aristocratic woman credited with attaining rebirth in Amida’s Pure Land. Chūjōhime’s hair embroideries served to show that women’s bodies could be transformed into miraculous materiality through corporeal devotional practices and served as evidence that women were capable of achieving enlightenment. Source link
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After the Reformation: Post-Kamakura Buddhism
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After the Reformation: Post-Kamakura Buddhism

Only in one area was Tokugawa Buddhism innovative and successful: the development of a complete liturgical system for funeral services and remembrance of ancestors. For better or for worse, this feature henceforth became central in popular Buddhist piety. A history of Japanese Buddhism, explaining how the Kamakura reforms (by such extraordinary individuals as Honen, Shinran, Dogen, and Nichiren) led, eventually, to the practices we see in Japan today. Source link
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Subjective Well-Being: Measuring Happiness, Suffering, and Other Dimensions of Experience
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Subjective Well-Being: Measuring Happiness, Suffering, and Other Dimensions of Experience

This report offers guidance about adopting subjective well-being measures in official government surveys to inform social and economic policies and considers whether research has advanced to a point which warrants the federal government collecting data that allow aspects of the population’s subjective well-being to be tracked and associated with changing conditions. Source link
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Abolish Buddhism and Destroy Shakyamuni!
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Abolish Buddhism and Destroy Shakyamuni!

This [Meiji Era] movement resulted in the destruction of tens of thousands of Buddhist temples throughout the country together with their statuary, the forced laicization of large numbers of Buddhist priests and widespread attacks on Buddhist doctrine and praxis, among other repressive measures. In short, Buddhism was attacked as a superstitious, foreign religion that had no place in a Japan modernizing at breakneck speed. This is the second part of an article concerning the ethical and doctrinal changes to Japanese Buddhism that occurred as a result of its centuries long, syncretistic connection to the indigenous religion of Shintō. The first part of this article, entitled “Counting the Cost of Buddhist Syncretism”, may be read here: http://www.jocbs.org/index.php/jocbs/article/view/...
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