The rapid advancement of communication and information technology has fundamentally transformed modern society, fostering unprecedented interconnection and interdependence. This evolution resonates deeply with the Buddhist doctrine of pratītyasamutpāda (dependent origination), which asserts that all phenomena arise through mutual causality. Far from being solely a technological breakthrough, the digital age exemplifies an enduring philosophical truth. This paper critically examines the Buddhist art of living as a practical ethical framework grounded in ancient wisdom and reinterpreted in the context of globalization, digitization, and ecological uncertainty. Drawing on core Buddhist teachings, including the Four Noble Truths, the Five Aggregates (skandhas), the concept of Śūnyatā (Emptiness), and the Law of Karma, the study explores how these principles illuminate pathways toward individual well-being and collective ethics. It contends that suffering (dukkha), both personal and social, originates from distorted perceptions fueled by craving, attachment, and consumerist ideologies. When exacerbated by unchecked capitalism and technological acceleration, these afflictions undermine not only human consciousness but also the ecological and moral fabric of society. The paper highlights the dynamic interplay between individual mindfulness and collective consciousness, advocating for compassion and ethical engagement as vital forces in reshaping global values. Through the lens of Buddhist ethics, it proposes a transformative vision for humanity—one that cultivates holistic well-being, supports ecological balance, and restores spiritual integrity amidst a fragmented world. Ultimately, integrating Buddhist insights into global consciousness offers a compelling framework for sustaining harmony within the self and the broader world.
Introduction. The article reviews the Chronicle of Rabzha Sanzhiev dealing with the history of Khori Buryats, written in Classical Mongolian, and housed at the Center of Oriental Manuscripts and Xylographs (IMBT SB RAS). Goals. The article attempts a source analysis into a history (historical accounts) of Buddhism from the Chronicle of Khori Buryats to be newly introduced into scientific circulation. Materials and methods. The study investigates a voluminous work by R. Sanzhiev that can be considered a continuation of the Chronicle of Shirab-Nimbu Khobituev written in 1887. Our analysis employs both a descriptive/narrative approach and the comparative historical method that make it possible to examine R. Sanzhiev’s Chronicle and other Buryat historical accounts in interrelation. Results. The Chronicle of Khori Buryats by R. Sanzhiev follows the traditions of Buryat chronicle-writing, contains new data, and is rich in factual material, in particular relating to the history of Buryat Buddhism missing in earlier texts. Messages on the history of Buddhism have been divided into three groups: history of persons, history of temples and religious objects, and history of corresponding traditions. It should be noted that such a division is conditional enough, since one and the same fragment can actually cluster within more than one group. Conclusions. The paper reveals the author did add a wide range of diverse archival and documentary materials to significantly expand the history of Aga Buryats and the history of how Buddhism had been disseminated within this Buryat ethnic group. Furthermore, R. Sanzhiev included messages about most significant late nineteenth to early twentieth century events in Russia and the world, and explained how the latter influenced the then life of Khori Buryats.
History (General), Oriental languages and literatures
The starting point of the article is the „argument from meaning” used in fundamental theology. The authors referring to it argue that only religion can give meaning to human life and the world. A man who does not want to run away from ultimate questions is faced with an alternative: faith in God or nihilism. Among religions, however, there is one that rejects belief in God and in any transcendence, and yet claims to be a source of meaning in life for its adepts. This religion is Buddhism. In this study, an attempt was made to confront the theological argumentation "from the meaning of life and the world" with the Buddhist worldview. The aim of such a confrontation is to locate potential weak points of this type of argumentation, which can help refine it so that it is also convincing for people outside Western culture.
Buddhism finds a diverse reflection in the work of L. Yuzefovich for many decades. Buddhist ideas and motifs are present in his early book “The Autocrat of the desert. Baron R. Ungern von Sternberg and the world in which he lived,” in some of his other prose texts, in poetry. In the proposed work, within the framework of a large study devoted to the Buddhist text of modern Russian literature, the influence of Buddhism on Leonid Yuzefovich's novel “Cranes and Dwarfs” is analyzed. The Buddhist idea of the illusory nature of reality and man is reflected in the plot of the work and in the organization of the system of characters. The novel intrigue is based on the principle of repetition, realized in space, time and in human destinies. The heroes of “Cranes and Dwarfs,” according to one of the possible interpretations offered by the novel, represent one consciousness that changes its forms in Russian history. At the same time, the illusory nature of a separate human existence is perceived by the author not in a pessimistic way, but as evidence of the spiritual kinship of all living things. The author also draws parallels to a similar perception of reality and people in the novel “Prince of the Wind” and the story “Sand Riders” by Yuzefovich and the book by E. Limonov “The Old Man Travels.”
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints emerged within the Mauritian landscape in the early 1980s after the arrival of foreign missionary work. With a population of Indian, African, Chinese, French heritage, and other mixed ethnicities, Mauritius celebrates multiculturalism, with many calling it the “rainbow nation”. Religiously, Hinduism dominates the scene on the island, followed by Christianity (with Catholicism as the majority); the small remainder of the population observes Islam or Buddhism. Although Mauritian society equally embraces people from these ethnic groups, it also has historically marginalized communities who represent a “hybrid” of the mentioned demographic groups. This article, based on ethnographic research, explores the experiences of Mauritian Latter-day Saints as they navigate the challenges and implications of membership in Mormonism. Specifically, it focuses on how US-based Mormonism has come to embrace the cultural heritage of people from the various diaspora and how Mauritian Latter-day Saints perceive their own belonging and space-making within an American born religion. This case study presents how the local and intersecting adaptations of language, race, and local leadership within a cosmopolitan society such as Mauritius have led to the partial hybridization of the Church into the hegemony of ethnic communities within Mauritian Latter-day Saint practices. These merging of cultures and world views prompts both positive and challenging religious experiences for Mauritian Church members. This article illustrates the implications and pressures of the Church trying to globalize its faith base while adapting its traditionally Anglocentric approaches to religious practices to multiracial, multicultural cosmopolitan communities such as Mauritius.
Criminal acts are disruptive events in the biography of actors. This can induce changes in practices and meanings of the world, hence the importance of their study. Focusing on the above conception, this article aims to contribute to the discussion on (in)security in Brazil. To do so, we characterise the historical development of this problem in the territory, the structure of the security forces and the main proposals for change in relation to them. In addition, we address the revaluation of former actors following the revocation of the Statute of Disarmament and the consequences that this entails. In order to achieve this objective, we used a qualitative methodology, focused on the use of secondary sources such as reports produced by official bodies and academic articles produced by brazilian researchers.
Based on the above, the research question can be summarised as follows: Do the security policies of Jair Messias Bolsonaro's government imply a step backwards or an advance compared to the previous situation? Which actors are being questioned?
This article is about the way that the notion of religion is understood and used in election manifestos of populist and nationalist right-wing political parties in Germany and the Netherlands between 2002 and 2021. In order to pursue such enquiry, a discourse on the nature of manifestos of political parties in general and election manifestos specifically is required. Election manifestos are important socio-scientific and historical sources. The central question that this article poses is how the notion of religion is included in the election manifestos of three Dutch (LPF, PVV, and FvD) and one German (AfD) populist and nationalist parties, and what this inclusion reveals about the connection between religion and populist parties. Religious keywords in the election manifestos of said political parties are researched and discussed. It leads to the conclusion that the notion of religion is not central to these political parties, unless it is framed as a stand against Islam. Therefore, these parties defend the Jewish-Christian-humanistic nature of the country encompassing the separation of ‘church’ or faith community and state, the care for the historical and cultural heritage of church buildings, and the subordination of the freedom of religion to the freedom of expression. The election manifestos also reveal that Buddhism and Hinduism are absent in the discourses of these political parties.
This article aims to explain the importance of I in Andrei Belyi’s work. Data is collected and analyzed from a passage of his manuscript A Crisis of Thinking. It is shown that the author has a strong intention to use the first personal pronoun in its singular form in his text. Additionally, the author argues that Belyi’s I is not a symbol of self-admiration, but evidence of his deep interests in Indian philosophical systems, in particular Vedanta and Buddhism. Further details are provided which justify Belyi’s appropriation of several Indian truths in order to solve the contemporary crisis of thinking. By pointing to the unity between the human being and the Absolute in Indian philosophical knowledge Belyi directs his readers’ attention to the divine nature of people.
Biography, Slavic languages. Baltic languages. Albanian languages
The paper addresses the problem of studying the vocabulary of translated
written Oirat-language monuments in comparison to their Tibetan-language originals.
It briefly describes the lexicographic works based on materials from ancient Buddhist
sources and available to modern Oiratologists. In addition, it examines some issues of
studying the language of the monuments through the use of modern computer programs,
provides examples of text processing, and analyzes the results obtained.
History of Asia, Political institutions and public administration - Asia (Asian studies only)
After the elections in November 2015 Myanmar has had a new and, although some wouldn’t agree, democratic government. And the head of the new government is a woman – Aung San Suu Kyi. In a country where the government had been led by an army dominated by men for more than five decades, there is now a quasi-democratic government led by a woman. Could this fact
imply that the situation of Myanmar’s women in general is improving? Does democratization have any implications for a gender regime that has been dominantly patriarchal for decades? And how do the democratisation process and the rising Buddhist nationalism effect the antidiscrimination agenda declared after the abandonment of military rule?
Control efforts to reduce infection from the parasitic flatworm Opisthorchis viverrini have progressed through understanding the epidemiology of Opisthorchis viverrini , antiparasitic drug developments, technological innovations, health education promoting cooking of fish, and improved hygienic defecation. Yet the problem persists. The case study method was used to examine the fundamental cause of the liver fluke infection problem. Evidence shows that the liver fluke–infected population does not care about living a long life. For them, suffering and death are simply a part of life, and expected. Thus, the cause(s) leading to death is not important. They believe morally bad actions, and predetermined fate associated with kamma in Buddhism, play a big role whether or not one is infected with the liver fluke. Health interventions may be made more effective if they take into account the liver fluke–infected population’s worldviews about ethics, morality, life, and death. We researchers should not feel concerned only about medically determined causes of death.
<p>This paper aims to present one of the contemporary trends on Buddhism, specially from the last decades in West, for its encounter with the globalized and dynamic context of present societies. This Buddhist trend, the progressive secularization of its traditions and practices, not to mention its increasing acceptance of historical-textual refutation, finds in Stephen Batchelor - a former monk in two different Buddhist traditions, Tibetan and Korean Zen - a catalyzer and a well-known advocate of secular perspective to the contemporary Buddhism. Here we will present the potential dialogue between the Secular Buddhism - besides the secularizing perspectives over orthodox cultural traditions - and the post-religional subject, as proposed by Marià Corbí and the Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians. For the purposes of this paper we will focus on the modernizing and secular hermeneutics on Dharma practice, as defended by Stephen Batchelor and others.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #231f20;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Buddhist Lent (known as War Dwin in Myanmar) is a 3 lunar month long period of fasting observed by devout Buddhist during the monsoon each summer. Dietary patterns during the War Dwin pose a challenge for patients with diabetes who wish to fast, as well as for diabetes care providers who have to provide effective, yet safe therapeutic regimes. During the War Dwin, people take solid meals only from midnight to noon. Intake is limited to jaggery and from noon to midnight. This predisposes to hypoglycemia, which in turn encourages defensive snacking and leads to poor glycemic control.</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #231f20;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This article discusses rational oral drug therapeutic options during War Dwin.</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #231f20;"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">It draws from available pharmacological evidence, combined with clinical experience, to suggest possible antidiabetic regimes which combine efficacy with safety and tolerability.</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #000000;">DOI: </span><span style="color: #000080;"><a class="western" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4038/sjdem.v3i2.6380"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US">http://dx.doi.org/10.4038/sjdem.v3i2.6380</span></span></span></a></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000;">Sri Lanka Journal of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism </span><span style="color: #000000;">2013; </span><span style="color: #000000;">3</span><span style="color: #000000;">: </span><span style="color: #000000;"><span lang="en-US">108-111</span></span></p>
Diseases of the endocrine glands. Clinical endocrinology
Gombojab Tsybikov (1873-1930), an ethnic Buryat from Russia, was a young scholar of oriental studies, when he went on a scholarly expedition to Tibet. Sponsored by the Imperial Russian Geographical Society, Tsybikov spent over a year in Lhasa (1900-1901), gathering materials and taking photographs of the city and environs, and introducing Tibet both academically and visually to the outside world. This paper examines the context of this trip within the larger issues of scholarship, international politics and modernization. In addition, it argues that Tsybikov was an example of a man caught between identities – that of an ethnic Buryat raised as a Buddhist and his Russian citizenship, education and patronage. He was, in a sense, the epitome of modern man.