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  3. This paper examines change and experimentation in Agama Hindu Dharma, a form of Hinduism which has adapted to the modern Muslim influence in Indonesia by emphasizing a monotheistic deity unique to the country ...

    Authors: June McDaniel
    Citation: International Journal of Dharma Studies 2017 5:20
    Content type: Research Published on:

  6. This article advances a conceptual shift in the ways that scholars think and teach about the established categories of religion, renunciation, and the modern in religious studies, anthropology, and Asian studi...

    Authors: Antoinette Elizabeth DeNapoli
    Citation: International Journal of Dharma Studies 2017 5:18
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  7. Adaptations, modifications, and realignments of religious doctrine and practice can be found in any period of social history. It can be official and highly orchestrated (as in Vatican II) but more often it tak...

    Authors: John Nelson
    Citation: International Journal of Dharma Studies 2017 5:16
    Content type: Research Published on:

  8. This special issue of the International Journal for Dharma Studies emerges from the 2014 meetings of the American Academy of Religion in San Diego, California. Antoinette DeNapoli, the editor of these articles...

    Authors: Leonard Norman Primiano
    Citation: International Journal of Dharma Studies 2017 5:15
    Content type: Editorial Published on:

  10. Relations between Buddhism and Catholicism began to take place in Vietnam in the sixteenth century and in Ho Chi Minh City in the seventeenth century. There have been conversions of Buddhists to Catholicism an...

    Authors: Hung Thanh Nguyen
    Citation: International Journal of Dharma Studies 2017 5:13
    Content type: Research Published on:

  15. The aim of this paper is to two fold—first, to set forth a definition of "mastery" as it is understood across diverse Buddhist traditions. Secondly, using verses from the Therigatha, I argue that the first female...

    Authors: Nona Olivia
    Citation: International Journal of Dharma Studies 2017 5:8
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  16. In this article the alternating voices of colleagues and collaborators Jane Brucker and Christopher Chapple describe their way of using contemplative pedagogies to bring Engaged Learning to their students at L...

    Authors: Jane Brucker and Christopher Key Chapple
    Citation: International Journal of Dharma Studies 2017 5:7
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  19. This paper addresses imagination, focusing on two words, bhāvana and vikalpa, both frequently translated as "imagination," and addresses the connections imagination has with the body, specifically within the cont...

    Authors: Loriliai Biernacki
    Citation: International Journal of Dharma Studies 2017 5:4
    Content type: Research Published on:

  20. Tirumular’s Tirumandiram is the earliest known Tamil treatise on yoga. This text is considered to be both, a devotional work as well as a tantric text. Unlike other major Siddha compositions, Tirumandiram does no...

    Authors: Geetha Anand and Sangeetha Menon
    Citation: International Journal of Dharma Studies 2017 5:3
    Content type: Research Published on:

  23. Sri Chinmoy (1931–2007) has written extensively on the concrete details of contemplative practice as well as its purpose in the wider context of yoga as a system of spiritual disciplines leading to God-realiza...

    Authors: Kusumita P. Pedersen
    Citation: International Journal of Dharma Studies 2016 4:15
    Content type: Research Published on:

  28. Authors: Edward P. Butler, John R. Lenz, Antonio Luis Costa Vargas, Doug McGetchin, Bruce M. Sullivan, Jeffery D. Long, Robert Yelle, David Cerequas, Na’aman Hirschfeld, Veena R. Howard and Purushottama Bilimoria
    Citation: International Journal of Dharma Studies 2016 4:10
    Content type: Book review Published on:

  29. Tenzin Chodron (b. 1951) is a scholar nun who has opened up new pathways for Buddhist women in the Republic of Buryatia. The paper describes how, at a critical juncture in the political and religious transitio...

    Authors: Zhargal Aiakova
    Citation: International Journal of Dharma Studies 2016 4:9
    Content type: Review Published on:

  37. Takatsukasa Seigyoku (b. 1929) is the current abbess of Daihongan convent, which is one of the two administrative heads of the popular Japanese pilgrimage temple Zenkōji. In this paper, I analyze Takatsukasa’s...

    Authors: Matthew S. Mitchell
    Citation: International Journal of Dharma Studies 2016 4:1
    Content type: Research Published on:

  44. Although Buddhism has become increasingly popular in the West, some vital concepts remain abstruse. Naturalistic Buddhism has arisen mainly as an attempt to demystify certain aspects of Buddhist philosophy, wi...

    Authors: Chien-Te Lin and Wei-Hung Yen
    Citation: International Journal of Dharma Studies 2015 3:6
    Content type: Research Published on:

  48. The Gītā, as it is well known, is an episode in the Mahābhārata when the climactic battle is about to begin. Kṛṣṇa argues in the Gītā that Arjuna should cultivate the necessary śraddhā (faith-in-oneself; mind’s s...

    Authors: Rubens Turci
    Citation: International Journal of Dharma Studies 2015 3:2
    Content type: Debate Published on: