Sri Lanka has witnessed many examples of anti-Muslim sentiment and violence since the end civil war, especially in 2014 when an ethnic outbreak affected large numbers people. Sinhala monks Buddhists appear to have played important role covering it. Long wars ethnonationalist ideology resulted a politico-religious shift related “Buddhist extremism”, which engages embracing attacking Muslims. Thi...

Is there such a thing as free will in Buddhism? Do moral and mental forms of cultivation at the heart of Buddhist practice imply some notion of agency and responsibility? And if they do, how are we to think of those individuals who embark on the path to liberation or enlightenment, considering that all Buddhists give universal scope to the noself doctrine? Of course, Buddhism is not alone among...

Most of the reports from India on the age at menarche have been based on recollected ages of commencement of the periods and the accuracy of these is doubtful. Examples of such ages vary from 13.42 years (Israel, 1959) based on replies from 2,227 women from different parts of India to 14.88 years (Shah, 1958) based on questionnaire forms completed by 2,391 Hindu girl entrants to Guj-rati Univer...

Abstract This article argues that the Mongol empire's famous religious tolerance cannot be explained solely through its adoption of Inner Asian imperial political traditions ruling over ethnically and religiously diverse subjects. Instead, this pluralism can ascribed to a wider pattern Mongols. The first part analytical category immanentist religions explains not only inter-cultic transparency ...

In the early twentieth century, Indonesia was a predominantly Muslim majority colony under Dutch Christian colonial authorities. The 1930 volkstelling (census record) conducted by government recorded four religions being practiced in archipelago; Buddhism not one of them. Nevertheless, sources such as newspapers and private magazines published various organizations showed that Java. 1930s, seve...

Within the framework of this article, authors attempt to identify main trends in mediatization Buddhist practices modern China. Religion PRC is a special area of ​​governmental policy, national and party elites pay serious attention institutionalization religious communities. The sphere has always occupied place life Chinese society. Religious syncretism allows development various currents...

The story of bodhisattva Sadāprarudita’s search for Dharma in the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra has served to successfully shape characters seeker, Sadāprarudita, and preacher (dharmabhāṇakas), Dharmodgata. This narrative carried much information about veneration Indic contexts, it also enthused Chinese Buddhists sixth century CE create written gold calligraphy. Emperor Wu Liang organized pañcavārṣika a...