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According to McMahan, Buddhism of the form found in the West today has been deeply influenced by this modernism. [11] [15] [13] Buddhist modernist traditions are reconstructions and a reformulation with emphasis on rationality, meditation, compatibility with modern science about body and mind.
In Central Asia meanwhile, the arrival of Communist repression to Tibet (1966–1980) and Mongolia (between 1924 and 1990) had a strong negative impact on Buddhist institutions, though the situation has improved somewhat since the 80s and 90s. [494] In Afghanistan and Pakistan, militants have destroyed some historic Buddhist monuments. [495] [496]
Christoph Baumer, China's Holy Mountain: An Illustrated Journey into the Heart of Buddhism. I.B.Tauris, London 2011. ISBN 978-1-84885-700-1; Richard Foltz, Religions of the Silk Road, Palgrave Macmillan, 2nd edition, 2010, ISBN 978-0-230-62125-1; Sally Hovey Wriggins, The Silk Road Journey with Xuanzang, Westview Press, 2004, ISBN 0-8133-6599-6
The relationship between Buddhism and democracy has a long history with some scholars claiming the very foundations of Buddhist society were democratic. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Though some historic Buddhist societies have been categorized as feudalistic, the relationship between peasants and land owners was often voluntary.
Even though Gupta empire was tolerant towards Buddhism and patronized Buddhist arts and religious institutions, Hindu revivalism generally became a major threat to Buddhism which led to its decline. A Buddhist illustrated palm leaf manuscript from Pala period (one of the earliest Indian illustrated manuscripts to survive in modern times) is ...
The Dalit Buddhist movement (also known as the Neo-Buddhist movement, Buddhist movement for Dalits, Ambedkarite Buddhist movement and Modern Buddhist movement [1]) is a religious as well as a socio-political movement among Dalits in India which was started by B. R. Ambedkar.
[52] [53] Like Buddhism, Whitehead also held that our understanding of the world is usually mistaken because we hold to the 'fallacy of misplaced concreteness' in seeing constantly changing processes as having fixed substances. [53] Buddhism teaches that suffering and stress arises from our ignorance to the true nature of the world. Likewise ...
One feature of Buddhism in the West today (especially among convert Buddhists) is the emergence of other groups which, even though they draw on traditional Buddhism, are in fact an attempt at creating a new style of Buddhist practice. Shambhala was founded by controversial lama Chögyam Trungpa. [128]