By placing a contemporary pilgrimage of Myanmar Buddhists to Bodh Gaya in India conversation with early Buddhist doctrine and practice, this article argues that wealth, its redistribution celebration, have provided, continue provide, non-peripheral avenues for advancement within societies. Through lavish gift-giving merry-making, the group pilgrims we encountered, led by weikza-lam practitioner...

This paper describes an adaptation of the Centrality Religiosity Scale to Buddhist religious tradition (CBRS) and a validation in Vietnam. The sample included data from 421 Vietnamese Buddhists (300 females, 121 males), aged 17 71 years (M=35.03, SD=13.09). results provided evidence for good psychometric properties short, intermediate, long version: CBRS-5, CBRS-10, CBRS-15 respectively. Specif...

Abstract Background The relation between religiousness and prejudice has been the topic of a large research literature, yet this was so far mostly limited to Western societies with Christian heritage. Purpose This study sought compare religiousness–prejudice relationship adherents monotheistic non-monotheistic religions. Focusing on inter-religious we examined whether theological exclusivism mo...

Rarely do members of diverse religions engaged in interreligious dialogue find agreement on metaphysics and doctrine, though such conversations may be very fruitful lead to greater understanding mutual illumination. In the area religious experience, however, recognition commonality much more readily apparent, encounters, life spirituality Jesus provide a meeting ground. This essay examines as c...

Attention to disability is still not evenly distributed. The right practice worship was under the needs of disabilities. This study assesses services Padepokan Dhammadipa Arama Buddhist Vihara in Batu City for theory used this uses planned behavior and social action. Data were collected through in-depth interviews observations. data tested validity using triangulation analyzed pattern matching,...

This paper explores the perspective on peace-making of contemporary Chinese Buddhist monk Jinghui 淨慧 (1933–2013), whose views have garnered esteem among Buddhists but received limited attention from scholars. introduced notion “Life Chan”, emphasizing inseparable nature practice and daily living. Building this concept, he emphasizes that it is incumbent upon to remain attentive a range real-wor...

I have seen and heard so many arguments around this topic recently. It can be a real hot button issue in certain circles. Schools, Churches, other organizations banned yoga from their buildings because they think the is religion. not true way of life it an integrated system education for body, mind inner spirit. This art right living was imbibed practiced India thousands years ago, science deal...

The purpose of this study was to develop and test the psychometric properties of the Mental Health Assessment Tool for Older Thai Adults (MHAT-T), a 32-item self-report questionnaire. Development of the MHAT-T was based on an exploratory sequential mixed methods design, where the results of the first method (qualitative) were used to develop the mental health assessment tool for older Thai adul...