The dreams of monks: Studies on Chinese Buddhists’ dream content.

Abstract. Many Muslims in the Riau Islands do not know the history of the development of Islamic theory from the center of power to spread to various corners. This is as the existence of the Great Mosque of Raja Haji Abdul Ghani (MBRHAG) on Buru Island, Karimun. Thus, to uncover the existence of this mosque, qualitative research methods are used so that history, architecture, and socio-religious functions can be known. Based on the results of the study it was concluded that the establishment of MBRHAG was initiated by Raja Haji Abdul Ghani. He was the first Amir (sub-district level government) of the kingdom of Riau-Lingga on Buru Island, in the 19th century. The architecture is a Chinese. Therefore, on the right side of this mosque is around 200 m, there is also the Sam Po Teng Temple and the Tri Dharma Dewa Bumi. Thus, the close location of the mosque with Chinese and Confucian worship houses's shows a harmonious relationship between Malay Muslims and Chinese Buddhists. In fact, in the continuation of this relationship there was information that a Chinese Buddhist had joined a Muslim friend to fast for half a month of Ramadan.Keywords: Mosque, Malay Muslims, Chinese Buddhists/Confucians, Harmonious RelationsAbstrak. Umat Islam di Kepulauan Riau banyak yang tidak mengenal sejarah perkembangan ajaran Islam dari pusat kekuasaan hingga tersebar ke berbagai pelosok. Hal ini sebagaimana keberadaan Masjid Besar Raja Haji Abdul Ghani (MBRHAG) di Pulau Buru, Karimun. Dengan demikian, untuk mengungkapkan keberadaan masjid ini digunakan metode penelitian kualitatif agar dapat diketahui sejarah, arsitektur, dan fungsi sosial keagamaannya. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian diperoleh kesimpulan bahwa pendirian MBRHAG diprakarsai oleh Raja Haji Abdul Ghani. Ia adalah Amir (pemerintah setingkat kecamatan) pertama kerajaan Riau-Lingga di Pulau Buru, pada abad ke-19. Adapun arsitekturnya adalah seorang Tionghoa. Karena itu, di sebelah kanan masjid ini sekitar 200 m juga terdapat Kelenteng Sam Po Teng dan cetya Tri Dharma Dewa Bumi. Dengan demikian, dekatnya lokasi masjid dengan rumah ibadah umat Tionghoa dan Khonghucu ini menunjukkan hubungan yang harmonis antara muslim Melayu dengan Budhis Tionghoa. Bahkan, dalam kelangsungan hubungan ini terdapat informasi seorang Buddhis Tionghoa pernah ikut temannya yang beragama muslim untuk berpuasa selama setengah bulan Ramadhan.Kata Kunci: Masjid, Muslim Melayu, Buddhis/Khonghucu Tionghoa, Hubungan Harmonis

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5 Remaking Chinese Buddhists

Buddhist Revitalization and Chinese Religions in Malaysia ◽

10.1515/9789048551835-009 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 123-150

Keyword(s):

Chinese Buddhists

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China in medieval Indian imagination: “China”-inspired images in medieval South Asia

International Journal of Asian Studies ◽

10.1017/s1479591421000176 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-28

Author(s):

Jinah Kim

Keyword(s):

Historical Context ◽

Cultural Exchanges ◽

Imperial Power ◽

Physical Presence ◽

Different Types ◽

First Millennium ◽

Chinese Buddhists ◽

Medieval India ◽

The Impact ◽

India And China

Abstract Cross-cultural exchanges between India and China during the first millennium are often understood through a Buddhist lens; by investigating the impact of Indian Buddhist sources, be they literary, doctrinal, or artistic, to receiving Chinese communities. In these cultural transactions, instigated by traveling pilgrim-monks and enacted by imperial power players in China, India emerges as a remote, idealized, and perhaps “hollow” center. Imagined or real, the importance of images of India in medieval Chinese Buddhist landscape has been established beyond doubt. What seems to be missing in this unidirectional looking is the impact of these cultural communications in India. What were the Indian responses to Chinese Buddhists' demands and their physical presence? How was China imagined and translated in medieval India? This essay proposes to locate the activities of Chinese monks in India and the iconographies of China-inspired Indian Buddhist images within the larger historical context of shifting cultural and political geography of the medieval Buddhist world. By exploring different types of evidence from borderlands, vis-à-vis the monolithic concepts of China and India, the essay also complicates the China–India studies' comparative model.

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Limbic System Function and Dream Content in University Students

Journal of Neuropsychiatry ◽

10.1176/jnp.14.3.283 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 14 (3) ◽

pp. 283-288 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Nichol D.J. Peterson ◽

Peter G. Henke ◽

Zoe Hayes

Keyword(s):

University Students ◽

Limbic System ◽

Dream Content ◽

System Function

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Neural substrates of self-referential processing in Chinese Buddhists

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience ◽

10.1093/scan/nsp027 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 5 (2-3) ◽

pp. 332-339 ◽

Cited By ~ 48

Author(s):

Shihui Han ◽

Xiaosi Gu ◽

Lihua Mao ◽

Jianqiao Ge ◽

Gang Wang ◽

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Keyword(s):

Neural Substrates ◽

Referential Processing ◽

Chinese Buddhists

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Deliberate Presleep Control of Dream Content: An Experimental Study

Perceptual and Motor Skills ◽

10.2466/pms.1977.45.2.660 ◽

1977 ◽

Vol 45 (2) ◽

pp. 660-662 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

M. L. Griffin ◽

D. Foulkes

Keyword(s):

Experimental Study ◽

Dream Content ◽

Reliable Evidence ◽

Better Than ◽

Do So

29 subjects attempted, over a period of 10 nights, to influence their dreams using techniques described in Garfield's book, Creative Dreaming (1974). A target suggestion was selected from a list of six suggestions compiled by, or for, each subject. Subjects kept daily records during the experiment both of their efforts at dream influence and of the dreams they recalled. Four judges attempted to identify from the dream material the target suggestion on each subject's suggestion list. The results indicated that the judges were unable to do so at better than chance levels. Thus analysis indicated no reliable evidence that conscious presleep suggestions become incorporated into dream content.

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The Religious Perfectionism Scale: A Cross-cultural Psychometric Evaluation Among Christians in the United States

Journal of Psychology and Theology ◽

10.1177/00916471211011595 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 009164712110115

Author(s):

Kenneth T. Wang ◽

Miriam S. Kang ◽

Hsiu-Chi Lee ◽

Irene Sipan

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Religious Commitment ◽

Psychometric Evaluation ◽

Internal Consistency Reliability ◽

The United States ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Fit Statistics ◽

Multiple Group ◽

Chinese Buddhists ◽

Religious Perfectionism

The Religious Perfectionism Scale (RPS) was first developed among Chinese Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims. It consists of the following two subscales: Zealous Religious Dedication and Religious Self-Criticism. In this study, a cross-cultural psychometric evaluation of RPS was performed in a US Christian sample ( N = 233). The confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) results presented a strong data-to-model fit statistics for the two-factor oblique model (CFI = .977, SRMR = .051, RMSEA = .034) in the US sample. The measurement of invariance between US and Chinese samples was examined by multiple-group CFA. The results indicated that the RPS fulfilled invariance for factor loadings and residual variances, but intercepts were partially invariant. The internal consistency reliability coefficients for the two subscales were adequate (above .70). The construct validity test results confirmed our hypotheses that the ZRD was positively correlated with Religious Commitment ( r = .56), and the RSC was positively correlated with Scrupulosity ( r = .58). Overall results suggest that the RPS is a promising measure of religious perfectionism for Christians in the United States. The implications of this were discussed.

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