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... cultivating the wisdom that Professor Falvey concludes is the essence of all sustainability. By bringing sustainability, agriculture, global issues, Buddhism, Christianity and a host of other factors into play, we see that our motivations belie our rhetoric – in environmental actions through to trade and aid. This open-spirited book contains a wealth of analysis and alter...

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...ning the Insights Chapter 7 82 West Meets East: The Salvation of Agriculture Falvey - Religion and Agriculture: Sustainability in Christianity and Buddhism vi Chapter 8 90 Pantheistic Agriculture: Investing the Gods in Agriculture Chapter 9 98 Agricultural Philosophy and Rights: From Natural Rights to Rights for Nature Chapter 10 105 Sustainable Agriculture and S...

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...e literal Torah, even mathematics and physics, our daily life routine or even Buddhism. Everything is seen in a new way, reminding us of the Creator... ...he correction of the world by ourselves. But there are other systems, such as Buddhism, Yoga, and sophism that speak of various means of enlightenme...

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...eligious concepts, the philosopher Didier Julia notices the following: - Buddhism envisages the ascetic attitude with a purpose of suppressing the ...

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...Why are there so many schools of Buddhism? Are the differences just cultural, or do they have fundamentally different visions of Dhamma? This work assesses the claims of the traditions, and takes into account to findings of modern scholarship. It pays specia...

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...lagers' housing, rice farming and other means of livelihood, community life, festivals, weddings, funerals, sorcerers and healers, as well as village Buddhism. The author draws surprising parallels between the worldviews of peoples of Thailand and Finland, the past and future of local cultures. Matti Sarmela started collecting material on Northern Thailand in 1972. Based ...

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...03 * From tradition to belief in development 104 Buddhist religion Buddhism of the village community 107 From local religion to national fait... ... that everyone in this village should learn the five basic commandments of Buddhism. If we were to obey them, we wouldn't commit sins or be too selfis... ...In his view, local economy works even when large-scale industry stagnates. Buddhism has thrived in village communities, and its ideology supports the ... ...counts are superimposed on two religious world views: ancestral belief and Buddhism.According to the ancestral belief system, the dead are reborn with... ...th legitimate access may sit. Esteemed, honourable old people who 'sustain Buddhism', observe good manners and rules of religious life, sit at the mon... ...mall cages also traditionally arrive, as releasing birds is a good deed in Buddhism. However, it looked like people no longer approve of birds being c... ...3 * From tradition to belief in development 104 Buddhist religion Buddhism of the village community 107 From local religion to national fait... ...i Muod Klao 1998. Mr. Muun T. Grow your own roots I am talking about Buddhism. When old people visit the temple once a week, they say that they ... ...here any contraception in the old days? How does khaa ta akong differ from Buddhism? They used to draw 12 squares on the ground and there were four si...

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...respects the rights of all the major religions, represented in the country: Buddhism, Catholicism, Christianity, Hinduism and Islam. Other lesser tr...

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...? And what is Dan's role in all this? Who, exactly, then, is Dan? II. Who is Dan? Buddhism compares Man to a river. Both retain their identity des...

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...ity, she decided upon another trip abroad. At first she yearned to return to Buddhism and saffron or deep dirt-orange robed monks to find an equilibri... ... was finding what she saw and her ruminations of it virtually unbearable. In Buddhism good actions perpetuated good outcomes for the giver and motivat...

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... Eu- rope was a jungle half Asia flocked to the ca- nonical conferences of Buddhism; and for cen- turies the people have gathered at Pun, Hurdwar, Tri...

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...5% ethnic Nepalese, 15% indigenous or migrant tribes Religion: 75% Lamaistic Buddhism, 25% Indian- and Nepalese-influenced Hinduism Language: Bhotes s... ...Khmer (Cambo- dian), 5% Chinese, 5% other minorities Religion: 95% Theravada Buddhism, 5% other Language: Khmer (official), French Life expectancy: me... ... eclectic; most important elements of religion are Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism; about 2-3% Mus- lim, 1% Christian Language: Standard Chinese (P... ...Korean(s); adjective Korean Ethnic divisions: racially homogeneous Religion: Buddhism and Confucianism; religious activities now almost nonexistent La... ...fucian tradition; vigorous Christian minority (28% of the total population); Buddhism; pervasive folk religion (Shamanism); Chondokyo (religion of the...

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...balah seems to have ideas similar to all the major mystical traditions, such as Buddhism. Is there an important difference? If so, why should one ch...

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...Although historically marginalized, Buddhist nuns are taking their place in modern Buddhism. Like the monks, Buddhist nuns live by an ancient system of monastic law, the Vinaya. This work investigates various areas of uncertainty and controversy in how the Vinaya is to be understood and applied today....

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...anyone takes a statistics of the number of people converting to Christianity, Buddhism, Jainism or Islam from their native religion, Dalits would to... ...s texts Devaram and Prabandam was only to destroy and ruin the principles of Buddhism and to establish caste, religion, god and the epics and puran... ...a himself said so, and he said it candidly. [Viduthalai, 7-3-1954] 265 Buddhism We, the working people, have been made into low caste; we ar... ...s, if you ask such questions the god will get angry. It was resolved in the Buddhism Propaganda Conference at Erode that such a god needs to be ab... ...Tamil word. There is no word in Tamil for that. [Viduthalai, 28-12-1956] Buddhism There is no religion like Buddhism. There are only a few doc... ...t Dr.Ambedkar said that he didn’t believe in or wouldn’t practice on joining Buddhism, we already don’t believe it or practice it. We don’t believe... ... the Varnashrama religion—must be annihilated. [Viduthalai, 28-12-1956] Buddhism II Now Buddha’s doctrines have become like a religion. Just ... ...tities it has become a religion. I said this to Ambedkar, “If we go there (to Buddhism) fearing the Brahmins in this religion, then who can exist wi... ...er, as late as 1990 the Indian government granted Dalits who had converted to Buddhism the same special status as Hindu Dalits, on the grounds that ...

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...cism, Nazism, Socialism and other isms - are more akin to Islam than to, let's say, Buddhism. They are universal, prescriptive, and total. They prov...

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...dictory utterances form the core of the Taoism and Zen/Chan (which emerged from Buddhism and Taoism) doctrines. How to judge the truth-value of a m...

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...ur family at an early age, and study under famous Buddhist sages, and practice Buddhism all your life; you will not become a famous Buddhist sage. O... ... So, if you can't use it: then why value it? If you examine the goals of Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism, Shintoism, and all the other religions ... ...e starving, teeming ignorant millions of Indians. If the spiritual legacy of Buddhism has not worked for 3,000 years: then what the fuck is it good ... ...Eastern shit; simply because their own spiritual culture is even emptier than Buddhism. The same is true for Chinese Spiritual teachings. If af... ...ed to smile superiorly and pretend it does not exist… pretend it is nothing. Buddhism is at its source: Pure Blindness. It is Pure Numbness. Pure ... ...’ Which happens to be the exact same idea Buddha had. What? Yes. Buddhism is a religion that was born in India two thousand, seven hundr... ...ualor, ignorance, and misery. This is Buddha’s great boon to his country. Buddhism is not spiritual at all. It is a discipline of selective unaw... ..., your own unfeeling invulnerability to your own pain. The entire view of Buddhism is based upon hopelessness and resignation reigning supreme ov... ...lessness and resignation reigning supreme over all other morals and ethics. Buddhism begins with the automatic assumption, that suffering is unavoi...

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...indigenous Tengri and Shamanism,20 which appears to have co- existed with Zoroastrianism, prevailed even after the arrival of other religions such as Buddhism and Manichaeanism.21 The introduction of Islam into Central Asia went through roughly three stages: force of arms and alms; the scholasticist madrasa; Sufism. But the first group to come into contact with Islam in Ce...

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...eology and Christian mysticism. Dr Padmasiri de Silva is a Buddhist philosopher in the Theravada tradition and has written a number of books about Buddhism in the modern context. He has held teaching positions in Sri Lanka, Singapore, the US and New Zealand, and is a research associate with the School of Historical Studies at Monash University ...

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...to life or science). Please contact the corresponding Taiwan or Singapore websites, where there are plenty of English versions of texts and videos of Buddhism, to request the standard translation. “What is Dao (Tao)? It is the natural principle all over the universe, the natural order, the essentiality of nature. The great universe has its order and rule, where the edu...

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...f Neutrosophics………………………………27 Neutrosophic Dialogues………………………………………………………………51 Absolute Truth……………………………………………………………………………68 Science, Destiny, and Buddhism……………………………………………………….…79 Call for Papers…………………………………………………………………………….94 Neutrosophy and Dialectic, postface by Anthony Mansueto.…………………………….95...

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...ictory utterances form the core of the Taoism and Zen/Chan (which emerged from Buddhism and Taoism) doctrines. How to judge the truth-value of a met... ...world. The whole induction of such argument is based on the intensive study on Buddhism and Daoism including I-ching. In addition, a framework of co... ...tentionally instead of negation that leads to confusion. It is also shown that Buddhism and Daoism play an important role in neutrosophy, and should... ...ntention of neutrosophy. Keywords: Neutrosophy, Multi-valued logic, I-ching, Buddhism, Dao, Yin-yang, Creativity, Contradiction, Illusion, Learnin... ...gift rather than logic rules, acquired largely after birth, e.g., through Buddhism practice. Note that our creativity lies just between interna... ...papers presented by Carlos Gershenson he proves this point. Same in Daoism and Buddhism. This contradiction is shown in the following aspect: a) Peo... ...In fact, all these things are merely our mental creations (called illusions in Buddhism) that in turn cheat our consciousness: There is neither penna... ...an become wise when understands this cause-effect, which is the basic point of Buddhism (Chin Kung [1]) 4. Logic: Dependent of Situations, not A... ...solute) truth on earth? One time in Tang dynasty China, the Fifth Patriarch of Buddhism announced to his disciples that everyone write a verse to sh...

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...? And what is Dan's role in all this? Who, exactly, then, is Dan? II. Who is Dan? Buddhism compares Man to a river. Both retain their identity des... ...erbally and is beyond empirical (and illusory) phenomena. Eastern thought (e.g. Zen Buddhism) uses intuition (or experience) to study reality in a n... ...cism, Nazism, Socialism and other isms - are more akin to Islam than to, let's say, Buddhism. They are universal, prescriptive, and total. They prov... ...psychology echo the schism that opened in the monotheistic religions (and in early Buddhism) between the profane and the sacred, the here and the b...

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...ture in science and literature without any bias in favour of Christianity, Buddhism, or any other sublime religion. Meantime he was going home to make... ...et it published and revise the proofs. It proved to be a disser- tation on Buddhism, containing such a bitter attack upon Christianity that Jock was s...

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... 156 Sustained Responsibility 158 Chapter 8 The Spirit of Agriculture: Applied Agricultural Ethics in Thailand 161 Conservative Canons 165 Thai Eco-Buddhism 169 Global Associations 172 Thai Attitudes and Education 173 Anti-Buddhist Global Economic Models 174 No Middle Path 177 T(h)ai Environmental Traditions? 179 Practical Approaches 182 Buddhist Agriculture? 185 Self Su...

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...eering academic, and your salary is not plush. Would you bequeath a $7,000,000 fortune to establish a foundation that supports the study of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism? Well, Professor Mahinder Singh Uberoi did just that. This inspiring article by Katharine Nanda examines Dr. Uberoi’s vision of promoting true understanding, religious tolerance and open communic...

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...al Shifts Global Development Forces Missing the Middle Path Seeking Environmental Traditions Popular Buddhist Thought Conservative Canons Rising Eco-Buddhism Practical Approaches Buddhist Economics Alternative Agriculture Self Sufficiency Summary 8 Chapter 15 - Whither Thai Agriculture? From Past to Present Current Position Policy Outcomes The Asian Financial Crisis T...

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...dhist, if not Gautama Buddha himself. Nietzsche had the greatest respect for Buddhism, and almost wherever he refers to it in his works, it is in term... ...fers to it in his works, it is in terms of praise. He recognised that though Buddhism is undoubtedly a reli- gion for decadents, its decadent values e...

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