Indian and Buddhist Studies into the Future:

Future Studies and KM

Futures studies is a value knowledge and has a two-way communication with the worldview, ideology and culture of nations. Humanities is one of the factors that influence the field of futures studies. Hence the human sciences itself could be the subject of future studies. In this study, we have tried to discuss the role of future studies in knowledge management in the field of humanities. Theref...

A Buddhist future for capitalism? Revising Buddhist economics for the era of light capitalism

This paper discusses Buddhist economics as a potential future for capitalism. In the 1970s, EF Schumacher proposed a form of Buddhist economics aimed at smallness, simplicity and non-violence. The major contribution of the present paper is to revise and update Schumacher’s and others’ work on Buddhist economics, first because of the changing spirit of capitalism from heavy to light capitalism a...

future studies and deterrence

understanding future evolutions is a necessity for governance in this developing world. in military affairs, deterrence, elaborated in this part, is a way of countering probable future conflicts.

PACIFIC WORLD Journal of the Institute of Buddhist Studies

Analysis of Scholarly Communication Activities in Buddhism and Buddhist Studies

There is little knowledge regarding the exchange of academic information on religious contexts. The objective of this informational study was to perform an overall analysis of all Buddhism-related communications collected in the Web of Science (WoS) from 1993 to 2011. The studied informational parameters include the growth in number of the scholarly communications, as well as the language-, doc...