Criticism and Appropriation: Nichiren's Attitude toward Esoteric Buddhism

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An American Appropriation of Buddhism

It is rather difficult to get an accurate picture of the number of practising Buddhists in the United States. In 1975, Barrett estimated 190,000 persons, or approximately 0.1% of the population and one would expect this figure to be mainly composed of descendants of Chinese and Japanese immigrants affiliated to the Jodo shinshu inspired Buddhist Churches of America with some Nichiren shoshu of ...

Mothers’ Knowledge and Attitude toward Exclusive Breastfeeding

Introduction: Exclusive breastfeeding protects infants from diseases in the first 6-months of life. Awareness and attitude affect breastfeeding performance.This study assessed maternal awareness and attitude toward breastfeeding in Alzahra Hospital, a baby friendly, in Rasht, Iran. Objectives: To determine knowledge and attitudes of mothers on various aspects of breastfeeding and factors relat...

Attitude toward imprecise information

This paper presents an axiomatic model of decision making under uncertainty which incorporates objective but imprecise information. Information is assumed to take the form of a probability-possibility set, that is, a set P of probability measures on the state space. The decision maker is told that the true probability law lies in P and is assumed to rank pairs of the form (P, f) where f is an a...

NURSING STUDENTS AND NURSES ATTITUDE TOWARD SPIRITUALITY AND SPIRITUAL CARE

Background & Aim: Spirituality is an important dimension of holistic nursing and spiritual care is essential in order to ensure the achievement of educational objectives in the nursing profession, providing proper care and obtaining minimum standards of professional competence and maintaining and promoting it. The aim of this study was to investigate nurses and nursing students’ viewpoints abou...