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Author: khemarato

_authors/levman.md

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+---
+title: "Bryan Levman"
+---
+
+A scholar of the Pāli Language at the University of Toronto.

_content/articles/buddhalaksana-and-gandavyuha-sutra_levman.md

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+---
+title: >-
+    The *Buddhalakṣaṇa* and the *Gaṇḍavyūha Sūtra*
+authors:
+  - levman
+external_url: "https://thecjbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/The-Buddhalaksana-and-the-Gandavyuha-Sutra_Levman.pdf"
+drive_links:
+  - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gvlsLR_T0BoGUOidzoUD7Cz3ocPJGBP_/view?usp=drivesdk"
+course: mahayana-roots
+tags:
+  - buddha
+year: 2005
+journal: cjbs
+number: 1
+pages: "31--57"
+openalexid: W2239700584
+---
+
+> This paper focuses on a section of the Gandavyuha Sutra (Book 39 of the Avatamsaka Sutra), which lists and frequently explains the Buddhalakṣaṇas.
+> The study introduces a new translation of the passage from the original Sanskrit, and compares its descriptions to other relevant Pali, Sanskrit and Tibetan sources.
+> In most cases the Gaṇḍavyūha Sūtra offers the most convincing explanation of the relevance and/or origin of the lakṣaṇa.
+

_content/articles/does-history-matter_mintz-steven.md

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+---
+title: "Does History Matter?"
+authors:
+  - "Steven Mintz"
+external_url: "https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2013/07/02/essay-role-history-supreme-court-decision-gay-marriage"
+drive_links:
+  - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FDSaJUIhj6kWgil1LkqcG-RfCz7qhv7I/view?usp=drivesdk"
+course: time # maybe down to past or maybe archive?
+tags:
+  - lgbtq
+year: 2013
+month: jul
+journal: "Inside Higher Ed"
+pages: 3
+---
+
+> But historical scholarship did more than substantiate a single pivotal argument. It framed the majority’s
+broader understanding of marriage as an evolving institution...

_content/articles/doomers-wrong_walsh-bryan.md

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+---
+title: "The doomers are wrong about humanity’s future and its past"
+authors:
+  - "Bryan Walsh"
+external_url: "https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23627382/progress-climate-change-poverty-global-health-doom-industrial-revolution-vaccines"
+drive_links:
+  - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HTdilvqre4WhCmwjCJiVP4lkXTSSS9be/view?usp=drivesdk"
+course: time
+tags:
+  - progress
+year: 2023
+month: mar
+image: https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/72068448/Vox_Doomerism_Progress_Final_2.0.jpg
+journal: vox
+pages: 11
+---
+
+> It’s simply easier to be good when the world isn’t zero-sum.
+
+On the practical—and moral—importance of believing in progress.

_content/articles/effects-of-mindfulness-based-stress_goldin-philippe-r-et-al.md

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+---
+title: "Effects of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) on Emotion Regulation in Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD)"
+authors:
+  - "Philippe R. Goldin"
+  - "James J. Gross"
+external_url: "https://europepmc.org/articles/pmc4203918?pdf=render"
+source_url: "https://doi.org/10.1037/a0018441"
+drive_links:
+  - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KPh-AdJBZGg4SwUhPAhxdMN2GR3PlwTt/view?usp=drivesdk"
+course: anapanasati
+tags:
+  - feeling
+  - communication
+  - meditation
+year: 2010
+month: feb
+journal: "Emotion"
+volume: 10
+number: 1
+pages: "83--91"
+publisher: "American Psychological Association"
+openalexid: W2164348509
+---
+
+> Sixteen patients underwent functional MRI while reacting to negative self-beliefs and while regulating negative emotions using 2 types of attention deployment emotion regulation: breath-focused attention (MBSR) and distraction-focused attention (counting backwards).
+
+> Compared with baseline, MBSR completers showed improvement in anxiety and depression symptoms and self-esteem.
+> During the breath-focused attention task (but not the distraction-focused attention task), they also showed (a) decreased negative emotion experience, (b) reduced amygdala activity, and (c) increased activity in brain regions implicated in attentional deployment.
+> MBSR training in patients with SAD may reduce emotional reactivity while enhancing emotion regulation.

_content/articles/language-theory-phonology-and-etymology_levman-bryan.md

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 title: "Language Theory, Phonology and Etymology in Buddhism and Their Relationship to Brahmanism"
 authors:
-  - "Bryan Levman"
+  - levman
 external_url: "https://journal.equinoxpub.com/BSR/article/download/9069/10542/45617"
 source_url: "https://doi.org/10.1558/bsrv.31031"
 drive_links:

_content/articles/lao-buddhist-women_tsomo-karma-lekshe.md

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-title: "Lao Buddhist Women:
-Quietly Negotiating Religious Authority"
+title: "Lao Buddhist Women: Quietly Negotiating Religious Authority"
 authors:
   - "Karma Lekshe Tsomo"
 external_url: "https://journal.equinoxpub.com/BSR/article/view/8914/10372"

_content/articles/lexical-ambiguities_levman.md

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+---
+title: "Lexical Ambiguities in the Buddhist Teachings"
+authors:
+  - levman
+external_url: "https://www.academia.edu/61873724/Lexical_Ambiguities_in_the_Buddhist_Teachings"
+drive_links:
+  - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gl2a7dzmZP-Q5TH-2vqLDHQKzGHzkTU8/view?usp=drivesdk"
+status: featured
+course: canonical-poetry
+tags:
+  - pali-language
+  - agama
+year: 2012
+journal: "International Journal for the Study of Humanistic Buddhism"
+publisher: "Chinese University of Hong Kong"
+address: "Hong Kong"
+volume: 2
+pages: "35--56"
+---
+
+> ... the original composer of the *gāthās* was likely aware of and comfortable with the polyvocal nature of the teachings, which added a richer and deeper dimension to the teaching.
+

_content/articles/near-death-experiences-in-thailand_murphy-todd.md

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+---
+title: "Near-Death Experiences in Thailand"
+authors:
+  - "Todd Murphy"
+external_url: "https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc799340/m2/1/high_res_d/vol19-no3-161.pdf"
+source_url: "https://doi.org/10.17514/jnds-2001-19-3-p161-178."
+drive_links:
+  - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NiWpwDSMLbnF7s-FuXghKfTCoPFvHwTO/view?usp=drivesdk"
+course: thai
+tags:
+  - iddhi
+  - death
+  - mythology
+  - cosmology
+  - perception
+year: 2001
+month: jan
+journal: "Journal of Near-Death Studies"
+volume: 19
+number: 3
+pages: "161--178"
+publisher: "International Association for Near-Death Studies"
+openalexid: W200865062
+---
+
+> ... harbingers of death, visions of hell, the Lord of the underworld, and the benefits of making donations to Buddhist monks and temples, can be understood within the framework of beliefs and customs unique to Southeast Asia.
+

_content/articles/putting-smrti-back-into-sati-putting_levman-bryan.md

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 title: "Putting *Smṛti* Back Into *Sati* (Putting Remembrance Back Into Mindfulness)"
 authors:
-  - "Bryan Levman"
+  - levman
 external_url: "http://jocbs.org/index.php/jocbs/article/view/167"
 drive_links:
   - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1e2579fYULkcnJwUYSYOX8H7QtkaXqjgx/view?usp=drivesdk"