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#Psychology #Traditions

Turn Off Your Search Mode – Trust in Being

Let’s develop a sense of trusting the inner refuge – trusting more in this moment, trusting in the source.

By Tenzin Rinpoche
Golden statue of the Buddha
#Buddhism #Ethics #Traditions

How Buddhist Practice Grounds Social Action in a Secular World

Many people today who are deeply concerned about the world’s suffering inhabit a secularized worldview in which it is assumed that religious understandings of salvation or spiritual liberation are irrelevant to the material needs and ways of thinking prevalent in our time.

By John Makransky
#Research

The Importance of Preserving Tibetan Buddhism’s Contribution to Humanity

We are at a moment of great significance for humanity, at the beginning of this new century, which could be either a horrendous time of natural and man-made mega-disasters or the greatest century yet of environmental restoration and peaceful global community.

By Robert Thurman
#Ethics #Traditions

Loving Paradoxes: A Feminist Reclamation of the Goddes Kali

The feminist significance of the Goddess Kali lies in an indigenous worshipful attitude of “Kali-bhakti” rather than in the mere image of the Goddess.

By Vrinda Dalmiya
statue of the goddess Guanyin
#Buddhism #Cultures #Traditions

From Bodhisattva to Goddess: Guanyin and Chinese Buddhism

Guanyin or Guanshihyin is the Chinese name for Avalokiteśvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, who has been worshiped throughout the Buddhist world.

By Matt Bramble
#Cultures #Traditions

Salutation to the Devī

The annual Durgā Pūjā is the climax of Navarātrī, literally “nine nights,” which is in fact a ten day observance. I like to call this the “Hindu High Holy Days,” because it is a very special time of year.

By Matt Bramble
#Cultures #Traditions

Embracing the Icon: The Feminist Potential of the Trans Bodhisattva, Kuan Yin

Explore the figure of Kuan Yin as a trans icon, an emerging point of identification for trans people that also has the potential to explode a tension within feminism.

By Cathryn Bailey
#Cultures #Traditions

What is Tradition?

The AyurYog project aims to ‘reveal the entanglements’ of no less than three historical traditions – but what do we actually mean by the use of the word tradition? How should we understand this word and its associations with authenticity and truth?

By Suzanne Newcombe
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