In response to a dual crisis of legitimacy, ruling political elites in Thailand have since the 2014 military coup been engaged in a variety of initiatives aimed at reforming the relationship between the Thai state and the Buddhist monkhood. These efforts were intensified after the death of King Bhumibol in October 2016 and the ascension to the thro...
Recent research into source materials for haṭhayoga (Birch, Mallinson, Szá / ntó / ) has revealed that the physical techniques and esoteric anatomy traditionally associated with Śaiva practitioners likely found a genesis within Vajrayāna Buddhist communities. The physiology and practices for longevity described in the 11th-or-12th-centu...
This essay will explore the challenges presented by transgressive rituals, particularly the secret and wisdom-consort consecrations found in the Mahāyoga and Yoginī tantras. In particular, it examines how Atiśa Dīpaṅkara Śrījñ / āna aided in the dissemination of these traditions to Tibet during the eleventh century, in part through encouragin...
As more and more students in China turn to religion, it follows that an increasing number of students in Chinese universities self-identify as Buddhist. Chinese academia has a tendency to treat this as problematic, offering reasons for this trend as well as solutions but neglecting to examine the nature of student belief and identity. By utilising ...
Yoga is a holistic discipline originating in ancient India. Yoga has links with Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism based on a shared philosophical framework of unity with all beings and belief in ahimsa, meaning non-harming. There is debate in the international yoga community about the spiritual, ethical and health-related links between yoga and plant-...
Diplomsko delo, naslovljeno Struktura nezavednega v budizmu in psihoanalizi, obravnava pojmovanje koncepta nezavednega v psihoanalizi in budistični filozofski šoli yogācāra, predočena pa je tudi primerjava razumevanja nezavednega v obeh miselnih tokovih. Najprej so predstavljeni koncept nezavednega pri Sigmundu Freudu ter razmerji nezavedno-zavedno...
Daniel P. Morgan, « Zhen Luan 甄鸞 (fl. 535-570) (Shuzun 叔遵) – Mathématicien, polémiste bouddhiste, astronome et haut fonctionnaire des Liang, des Qi du Nord et des Zhou du Nord », dans Dictionnaire biographique du haut Moyen Âge chinois, François Martin et Damien Chaussende (éd.), Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2020, p. 629-631.
This dissertation shows how early modern (1603–1868) Japanese Buddhist ritual performances created forums for the transmission of religious knowledge across lay and clerical divides within the Shingi Shingon school. Analyses of liturgical manuscripts, commentaries, temple records, and denominational scholarship reveal the emergence of registers of ...
Since the late 1990s, the expression &ldquo / Jewish Mindfulness&rdquo / has become ubiquitous in Jewish community centers (JCCs) and synagogues in America, in Israel, and in the Western diaspora. &ldquo / Mindfulness&rdquo / , a secular meditation technique originating from Buddhism which has been popularized in Western culture through its reconte...
This paper begins with an examination of early Indian speculation about colors, their number, their use, and their significance. It ranges widely from the Upaniṣads to the Nāṭyaśāstra, from Śvetāmbara Jain canonical texts to Buddhaghosa&rsquo / s treatise on meditation, the Visuddhimagga, from purāṇas to technical treatises on painting. It turns th...
