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Islam:
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by Katie Starker through Professor Rev. Dr. James Kenneth Powell II, opensourcebuddhism.org
Ayurveda: Indian Medical Tradition
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by Samantha Staley through Professor Rev. Dr. James Kenneth Powell II, opensourcebuddhism.org
Philosophy in History in Albania
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by Jeta Rrustemaj through Rev. Dr. James Kenneth Powell II, opensourcebuddhism.org
Parfit and the Buddha on No Self
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by Leinweber through Professor Rev. Dr. James Kenneth Powell II, opensourcebuddhism.org This very interesting piece examines the similar though not quite the denial of the individual, unchanging self from the perspective of Derek Parfitt and the Buddha. Nice, thoughtful piece
Women in Islam
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by Vjolca Zekiri through Professor Rev. Dr. James Kenneth Powell II, opensourcebuddhism.org In this project we get to see what the Qur'an specifically says about the attire and behavior of women. We hear what the "beatings" they receive really amount to (not much). We find that women in Islam...
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Mereological Nihilism: The World is a Nothing/Something
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by Patrick Kirk through Professor Rev. Dr. James Kenneth Powell II, opensourcebuddhism.org This absolutely fascinating piece by Patrick Kirk based on the mereological nihilism of Jeffrey Grupp reveals how the Buddhists were right: reality is but "pinpoints" of quanta blipping in and out of...
Satan: a Brief History
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by Zach Ahnert through Professor Rev. Dr. James Kenneth Powell II, opensourcebuddhism.org This very interesting work chronicles the character development of Satan. He starts off rather innocently, even doing the very work of God, in the Book of Job. He gets much darker as Christianity separates...
Speaking Style East and West: the Dalai Lama and M. L. King
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by Rick Raulins through Professor Rev. Dr. James Kenneth Powell II, opensourcebuddhism.org This really nicely done work investigates the speaking styles of these two well-known peacemakers, one Buddhist, one Protestant. We learn that the latter is down and dirty with the people, while the Dalai...
The Soviet Jewish Homeland
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by Miriam Hasan through Rev. Dr. James K. Powell II, opensourcebuddhism.org This touching and poignant, empathetic work depicts the history of anti-semitism in Russia. We hear of the pogroms, the calculated plans to eliminate Jews, and just when the Bolshevik revolution portended change, it...
Turkish Buddhism: Its Origins and Demise
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by Jack Rowe through Professor Rev. Dr. James K. Powell II, opensourcebuddhism.org This excellent piece of new research provides us with a glimpse of a once widespread Buddhism in Turkestan. Islamic conversions sealed its fate and now it lives on only in Buryatia.
