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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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A Lineage of Dullards: Zen Master Tōjū Reisō and his associates
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A Lineage of Dullards: Zen Master Tōjū Reisō and his associates

Through a study of three monks, Tōjū Reisō, Tairyū Bun’i, and Seishū Shusetsu, strategies employed to preserve Rinzai Zen spiritual legacy in the face of the turmoil of Meiji are highlighted. These monks did their best to continue their eremetic existence and to pick up the pieces left by the widespread destruction of Buddhist temples and monasteries in early Meiji Japan. Source link
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How rituals can help you approach basic tasks more mindfully
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How rituals can help you approach basic tasks more mindfully

@article{vox2022-rituals, title={{H}ow rituals can help you approach basic tasks more mindfully}, author={Terry Nguyen}, year=2022, month=jun, journal={Vox}, pagecount=4, keywords={feeling,daily-life,religion}, ranking={rank3}, url={https://www.vox.com/even-better/23144784/why-rituals-not-routine} } Source link
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Saṃvega and Pasāda: Dharma Songs in Contemporary Cambodia
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Saṃvega and Pasāda: Dharma Songs in Contemporary Cambodia

Despite the decimation of traditional culture during the Khmer Rouge period (1975–1979), Dharma songs remain an integral facet of Buddhist life among Khmers in Cambodia and in diaspora. This article examines the role of Dharma songs in contemporary Cambodia, highlighting how their texts, melodies, and performances evoke the aesthetic experiences of saṃvega and pasāda, central to Buddhist practice. It emphasizes the significance of music in expressing and living Buddhism within the Khmer tradition. Source link
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Homeownership can bring out the worst in you
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Homeownership can bring out the worst in you

@article{demsas2021-homeownership-worst, title={{H}omeownership can bring out the worst in you}, author={Jerusalem Demsas}, year=2021, month=jul, journal={Vox}, pagecount=8, keywords={feeling,america,politics,economics}, ranking={rank4}, url={https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22597947/homeowner-nimby-affordable-housing-local} } Source link
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Cambodian Buddhism: History and Practice
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Cambodian Buddhism: History and Practice

Theravada Buddhism, once it had anchored itself in Cambodian soil, possessed a remarkable facility for assimilation and accretion. An introductory overview of the history of Buddhism in Cambodia, from the earliest archeological evidence in 5th c. Funan to its tentative reemergence in the 1980s and ’90s. Source link
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The Dhammakāya texts and their ritual usages in Cambodia and northern Thailand
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The Dhammakāya texts and their ritual usages in Cambodia and northern Thailand

@article{malasart-woramat2021-dhammakaya-texts-ritual-usages-in-cambodia-northern-thailand, title={{T}he {D}hammakāya texts and their ritual usages in {C}ambodia and northern {T}hailand}, author={Woramat Malasart}, year=2021, month=jun, journal={Academia Letters}, number=1393, pagecount=6, keywords={cambodian,theravada-chanting}, ranking={rank3}, url={https://doi.org/10.20935/AL1393} } Source link
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Female Hurricanes Are Deadlier Than Male Hurricanes
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Female Hurricanes Are Deadlier Than Male Hurricanes

@article{jung-kiju-et-al2014-female-hurricanes-deadlier, title={{F}emale {H}urricanes {A}re {D}eadlier {T}han {M}ale {H}urricanes}, author={Kiju Jung and Sharon Shavitt and Madhu Viswanathan and Joseph M. Hilbe}, publisher={National Academies Press}, address={Washington D.C.}, year=2014, month=jun, journal={The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences}, volume=111, number=24, pages={8782--8787}, keywords={feeling,gender,science-communication}, doi={10.1073/pnas.1402786111}, openalex_id={W1991202814}, ranking={rank4}, url={https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/111/24/8782.full.pdf} } Source link
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TikTok’s Viral Monks Are Clashing With Buddhist Authorities
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TikTok’s Viral Monks Are Clashing With Buddhist Authorities

@article{kelliher-fiona2023-tiktoks-viral-monks, title={{T}ik{T}ok’s {V}iral {M}onks {A}re {C}lashing {W}ith {B}uddhist {A}uthorities}, author={Fiona Kelliher}, year=2023, month=mar, journal={Rest of World}, pagecount=6, keywords={cambodian,monastic,modern,media}, ranking={rank3}, url={https://restofworld.org/2023/buddhist-monk-tiktok-monastic-code/} } Source link
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Pali Literature in Cambodia
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Pali Literature in Cambodia

@article{saddhatisa-hammalawa1981-pali-literature-in-cambodia, title={{P}ali {L}iterature in {C}ambodia}, author={Hammalawa Saddhatisa}, publisher={The Pali Text Society}, address={Bristol}, year=1981, journal={The Journal of the Pali Text Society}, volume=9, pagecount=10, keywords={cambodian,pali-literature}, ranking={rank3}, url={https://archive.org/download/jpts-ix-1981/Pali%20Literature%20in%20Cambodia%20-%20H%20Saddhatissa_text.pdf} } Source link
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RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra warns Banks to address Customer ‘s complains seriously & not to ask KYC documents repeatedly as Crores of Complains are pilling at RBI regarding complains and Banks are unnecessary blocking thousands of lower & Middle class Saving Accounts in name of KYC,Will Banks listen to RBI governor as in past RBI also warned but to earn money and pass it to big business cronies as loan Banks are deaf ear to common persons bypassing RBI Orders

Lacs of Bank Saving Bank accounts of lower and middle class have been made dormanant and inoperable in name of KYC documents by few Government and many private Banks and this money where lakh crores rupees are deposited where hardly 3% interest is provided ,is utilised by this Bank to provide loan at the rate of 14-18% where middle class and lower middle class tries to pay back but many top business and industralists donot pay it all and these accounts become NPA and these companies ultimately go to NCLT or their owners move to foreign destinations completing Government to writeoff these loans (According to a media report,loan to a tune of 14 Lakh crores were waived off by Government to clean Account Book of Bank). RBI Governor Mr Sanjay Malhotra was speaking at the annual conference of ...
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Cambodia’s Wat Phum Thmei Palm Leaf Library and the Resilience of Buddhist Texts
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Cambodia’s Wat Phum Thmei Palm Leaf Library and the Resilience of Buddhist Texts

The new digital resource will not only help preserve a priceless record of Cambodian society and history, but it will also provide modern readers access to a trove of Cambodian Buddhist literature, and bring the texts to the world by making new translations possible. This article describes the history of Wat Phum Thmei Serey Mongkol’s library, which houses thousands of manuscripts of Buddhist scripture. The article further details the temple’s recent work in preserving and digitizing these valuable materials, making them accessible to the whole world. Source link
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Zen and the “Hero’s March Spell” of the Shoulengyan jing
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Zen and the “Hero’s March Spell” of the Shoulengyan jing

Reciting the “Hero’s March Spell” every day causes goblins, demons, and strange ghosts to be sincere and refrain from harming people. The Léngyán Zhòu (楞嚴咒), or Śūraṅgama Mantra, is a protective dhāraṇī that has long been chanted by East Asian Buddhists. This article explores the Śūraṅgama’s history and enduring appeal as well as the distinction between exoteric and esoteric magic. Source link
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Self-Report Captures 27 Distinct Categories of Emotion Bridged by Continuous Gradients
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Self-Report Captures 27 Distinct Categories of Emotion Bridged by Continuous Gradients

@article{cowen-alan-et-al2017-distinct-categories-of-emotion, title={{S}elf-{R}eport {C}aptures 27 {D}istinct {C}ategories of {E}motion {B}ridged by {C}ontinuous {G}radients}, author={Alan Cowen and Dacher Keltner}, publisher={National Academies Press}, address={Washington D.C.}, year=2017, month=sep, journal={The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences}, volume=114, number=38, pagecount=10, keywords={feeling,emotion,film}, doi={10.1073/pnas.1702247114}, openalex_id={W2752234108}, ranking={rank3}, url={https://europepmc.org/articles/pmc5617253?pdf=render} } Source link
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A Century of Confusion: The Brick Reliefs of Cambodia’s Phnom Trap Towers
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A Century of Confusion: The Brick Reliefs of Cambodia’s Phnom Trap Towers

This article reexamines the iconography of three tenth-century towers located in eastern Cambodia at Phnom Trap, arguing that the figures depicted on the inner brick reliefs are Buddhist, not Vaiṣṇava or Śaiva as previously described in early surveys. By establishing the Buddhist orientation of this site, the author attempts to demonstrate that forms of Buddhism in tenth-century Cambodia were more widespread than previously acknowledged. Source link
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What Buddhism Is
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What Buddhism Is

Purity of mind is the greatest common denomiator of all religions. Love, which alone is the means for the unity of mankind, must be supreme, and it cannot be so unless the mind is transcendentally pure. This book contains the transcriptions of a series of three lectures given in 1951 by Sayagyi U Ba Khin. The lectures were given at the request of a religious study group in Burma and contain a summary of the life and teachings of the Buddha as found in the Theravada tradition. Source link
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A Computational and Neural Model of Momentary Subjective Well-Being
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A Computational and Neural Model of Momentary Subjective Well-Being

@article{rutledge-robb-b-et-al2014-momentary-wellbeing, title={{A} {C}omputational and {N}eural {M}odel of {M}omentary {S}ubjective {W}ell-{B}eing}, author={Robb B. Rutledge and Nikolina Skandali and Peter Dayan and Raymond J. Dolan}, publisher={National Academies Press}, address={Washington D.C.}, year=2014, month=aug, journal={The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences}, volume=111, number=33, pages={12252--12257}, keywords={neuroscience,dopamine}, doi={10.1073/pnas.1407535111}, openalex_id={W1994312033}, ranking={rank3}, url={https://europepmc.org/articles/pmc4143018?pdf=render} } Source link
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Transmission of Societal Stereotypes to Individual-Level Prejudice Through Instrumental Learning
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Transmission of Societal Stereotypes to Individual-Level Prejudice Through Instrumental Learning

exposure to a stereotype, regardless of whether one agrees with it, can shape how one experiences and learns from interactions with members of the stereotyped group, such that it induces individual-level prejudice Computational modeling revealed that this preference was due to stereotype effects on priors regarding group members’ behavior as well as the learning rates through which reward associations were updated in response to player feedback. We then show that these stereotype-induced preferences, once formed, spread unwittingly to others who observe these interactions, illustrating a pathway through which stereotypes may be transmitted and propagated between society and individuals. Source link
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