Buddhistdoor Global (BDG)Jun 3

BDG News: Third International Buddhist Conference Reaffirms Pakistan’s Commitment to Gandharan Heritage

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#Buddhism #Buddha #Pakistan #Gandhara #BuddhistStudies #BuddhistHistory #BuddhistConference #BuddhistHeritage #Islamabad

Buddhistdoor Global (BDG)May 29

Beginner’s Mind: Society Cannot Be Built Solely on Friendship and Care

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#Buddhism #BuddhistStudies #BuddhistEconomics #AI #Buddha #BuddhistPhilosophy #YoungPeople #CompassionateSociety #SocialStability #SocialStructures

The Open Buddhist UniversityMay 26

đź“° The Debate Between 1884 and 1914 (A free, 38-page article from 2015)

Tags: #Archeology #ModernIndian #BuddhistStudies
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/who-should-pay-for-indological-research_huxley-andrew

Who Should Pay for Indological Research?: The Debate Between 1884 and 1914

What started as a reasoned debate on funding turned, halfway through the 1890s, into something more conspiratorial.

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The Open Buddhist UniversityMay 25

đź“° What Buddhism Taught Cognitive Science about Self, Mind and Brain (A free, 24-page article from 2015)

Tags: #Philosophy #Neuroscience #BuddhistStudies #Science
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/what-buddhism-taught-cognitive-science_federman-asaf

What Buddhism Taught Cognitive Science about Self, Mind and Brain

It is often overlooked that in Buddhism fact is interwoven with value, while in science they are still further apart. This makes the claims about the compatibility of the two systems somewhat naive, and explains why recently the “dialogue” takes the form of neuroscientific research of meditation: work that hardly changes or challenges the foundations of science.

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The Open Buddhist UniversityMay 24

đź“° Modernity, Authenticity, and Nostalgia for "Tradition" in Buddhist Studies (A free, 38-page article from 2009)

Tags: #BuddhistStudies #Modern
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/western-self-asian-other_quli-natalie-e-f

Western Self, Asian Other: Modernity, Authenticity, and Nostalgia for “Tradition” in Buddhist Studies

The discourse concerning Buddhist modernism has carried with it a subtle claim that so-called “modern” Buddhists are not really “Buddhists” at all; they are tainted by Western culture, philosophy, and religion, and as such are peripheral to the study of the “authentic Buddhism” that resides in a more “traditional” Asia.

The Open Buddhist University
The Open Buddhist UniversityMay 23

đź“° Meanderings Through the Metaphors of a Field (A free, 48-page article from 1995)

Tags: #Humanities #BuddhistStudies
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/unspoken-paradigms-meanderings_gomez-luis-o

Unspoken Paradigms: Meanderings Through the Metaphors of a Field

We provide our audience, in fact, with a variety of mirrors. This is the service of scholarship.

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Buddhistdoor Global (BDG)May 22

Online Dharma: Buddhist Translation Project 84000 Announces Branding and Website Refresh

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#Buddhism #84000 #Vajrayana #TibetanBuddhism #BuddhistStudies #Translation #Buddha #DzongsarKhyentseRinpoche #Kangyur #Tengyur #BuddhistTranslation

Buddhistdoor Global (BDG)May 21

BDG News: Buddhist Scholars and Technologists to Gather in Austria for July Conference on AI and Human Identity

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#Buddhism #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #BuddhistConference #BuddhistStudies #BuddhistEthics #Consciousness #DigitalTechnology

The Open Buddhist UniversityMay 20

đź“° The Middle Position of a Scholar-Practitioner (A free, 9-page article from 2008)

Tags: #BuddhistStudies #Pedagogy #Religion
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/at-ease-in-btw_williams-duncan-ryuken

At Ease in Between: The Middle Position of a Scholar-Practitioner

Buddhists scholar-practitioners have two major responsibilities vis-à-vis our students: 1) encourage students to “sympathetically understand” the tradition and 2) develop some critical perspective on a tradition with its lengthy history, multiplicity of sectarian forms, and great diversity of ways in which the religion has had and continues to have impact on culture, art, politics, and so forth.

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The Open Buddhist UniversityMay 19

đź“° Exhibitions, Mass Culture, and China in the British Imagination in the 1920s (A free, 25-page article from 2021)

Tags: #BritishBuddhism #BuddhistStudies #Museums
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/hilditch-mcgill-chinese-palace-temple_ryder-lewis

The Hilditch–McGill Chinese Palace Temple: Exhibitions, Mass Culture, and China in the British Imagination in the 1920s

It is possible that Hilditch asked Chinese residents in Manchester to assist him with the services but had been rejected, but their omission is more likely down to the fact he wanted to cement his status as the authority of the temple. By donning Chinese robes, Hilditch added a heightened sense of reality to the display than would have been created if he had worn English clothes, while simultaneously increasing his supposed authority; he played both museum guide and Buddhist Priest.

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