... the depictions of religious phenomena, rather than by means of them. © 2021 by The Regents of the University of California 2021 Buddhism Neo-Confucianism Daoism transmission of marvels truyền kỳ love karma duyên RESEARCH ESSAY CUONG T. MAI The Karma of Love: Buddhist Karmic Discourses...

... their charity at cancer hospitals as an affective and ethical form of public health intervention. © 2020 by The Regents of the University of California 2020 Buddhism charity cancer karma affect theory R E S E A R C H E S S A Y S A R A S W E N S O N The Affective Politics of Karma among Buddhist...

.... © 2020 by The Regents of the University of California 2020 charity social stratification petty traders postsocialism Buddhism R E S E A R C H E S S A Y L E H O A N G A N H T H U Doing Bodhisattva s Work: Charity, Class, and Selfhood of Petty Traders in H Chí Minh City At four o clock...

...Dat Manh Nguyen Based on twenty months of ethnographic research from 2016 to 2019 at Buddhist educational programs for youth in Hồ Chí Minh City, this article investigates the emergence of urban therapeutic Buddhism. Responding to the heightened public concerns over youth’s well-being and mental...

... show us what and how people read. © 2018 by The Regents of the University of California 2018 Buddhism printing history of the book reading practices E S S A Y K A T H L E N E B A L D A N Z A Publishing, Book Culture, and Reading Practices in Vietnam: The View from Th ng Nghiêm and Ph...

...Allison Truitt Bodhisattvas are an essential element of the Pure Land branch of Mahayana Buddhism practiced in Vietnam and its diaspora. Many Vietnamese lovingly refer to Bodhisattva Quán Thế Âm as a “gentle mother,” and the circulation of her name and image constitutes a spiritual geography...

...Mark W. McLeod The Mendicant Sect is a Buddhist movement that combines Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism. Based on fieldwork, analysis of ritual handbooks and other sect materials provided by informants, and readings of published works of Vietnamese monastics and scholars, this article introduces...