Buddhists
Buddhism (, US: ) is the world's fourth-largest religion with over 520 million followers, or over 7% of the global population, known as Buddhists. Buddhism encompasses a variety of traditions, beliefs and spiritual practices largely based on original teachings attributed to the Buddha (born Siddhārtha Gautama in the 5th or 4th century BCE) and resulting interpreted philosophies. It originated in ancient India as a Sramana tradition sometime between the 6th and 4th centuries BCE, spreading through much of Asia. Two major extant branches of Buddhism are generally recognized by scholars: Theravāda (Pali: "The School of the Elders") and Mahāyāna (Sanskrit: …
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UAP: University of Alberta Press · 1 December 2023 English
This ethnography shows how the language of compassion is used to oppress Bhutanese refugees.
the Bhutanese reflects these historic events—Buddhists wearing the gho or kira, speaking Dzongkha amid …
CARDUS: Centre for Cultural Renewal · 19 July 2023 English
Canadian fertility rates have fallen sharply in recent decades and are now at levels far below what Canadian women say they want. Understanding this reality merits closer inspection. Our earlier …
other than to Hindus or Sikhs, for example. Buddhists and Hindus were more similar to each other than … fellow Abrahamic faiths, while Hindus, Sikhs, and Buddhists were grouped together as fellow faiths of South …
Pembroke Publishers · 23 March 2023 English
Stop the Hate for Goodness Sake shows teachers how to confront racism and disrupt discrimination in order to deepen students’ understanding of social justice, diversity, and equity. Background information, statistics, …
religious movements, such as Falun Gong or Tibetan Buddhists in China; systemic discrimination towards different …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 7 February 2023 English
After Jack Letts went to Syria as an idealistic 18-year-old, his parents faced a savaging from the tabloid press. They sent him a small amount of money to try to …
Rohinga Muslims in Burma, where Christians and Buddhists had demonized and persecuted people not of their …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 January 2023 English
Literature utters the unutterable, not through logic, not through science, not through argument, but through a pitch of eloquence so pronounced the conscientious reader cannot fail to pay attention.Louis Groarke …
Ramadan and make a pilgrimage to Mecca. Some Buddhists practise vegetarianism and meditation; Hindus … Seventh-day Adventists, Anglicans and Baptists, Buddhists and Hindus. Paul Tillich, somewhat famously, …
Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia · 5 December 2022 English
Two others deal with aspects of fish respiration, in the giant Mekong catfish and in the writing of George Cuvier, while two others deal with the reconstruction of fisheries catches; …
giggles (he giggles a lot), was about the need for Buddhists to love each other, across their own divisions … continents, most of the rest being, I guess, lay Buddhists. The conference also featured various speakers …
UMP: University of Manitoba Press · 19 August 2022 English
Recipes as Reciprocity considers the ways that food and research intersect for both researchers, participants, and communities demonstrating how everyday acts around food preparation, consumption, and sharing can enable unexpected …
students disparaged the villagers as not being real Buddhists but rather carrying out superstitious animistic … Villages would consider themselves Theravada Buddhists who support their monks in their local temples …
CSLS: Centre for the Study of Living Standards · 25 July 2022 English
The an- in the bivariate models come from? We nual World Happiness Report (WHR) uses find that in all (nine) cases, the (three) re- the results of international personal sur- …
widespread through the govern- are Christians and Buddhists of Chinese ment?” and “Is corruption widespread …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 28 February 2022 English
Debates about Muslim societies have intensified in the last four decades, triggered by the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran and 9/11. At the heart of these assumptions is Muslim exceptionalism: …
Orthodox Jews in Israel, Hindus in India, and Buddhists in east Asia. At the dawn of the 32586_Kazemipur …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 February 2022 English
Argentina’s populist movement, led by Juan Perón, welcomed people from a broad range of cultural backgrounds to join its ranks. Unlike most populist movements in Europe and North America, Peronism …
Nayar 32 Growing Up Canadian Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists Edited by Peter Beyer and Rubina Ramji 33 …
