scholarly journals On the Question of “Discipline” (Vinaya) and Nuns in Theravāda Buddhism

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 98
Author(s):  
Nirmala S. Salgado
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Theravada Buddhism ◽  
Disciplinary Practices ◽  
Form Of Life ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Buddhist Nuns ◽  
Disciplinary Practice ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This article centers on the relationship of rules (nīti) to the monastic form of life of contemporary Buddhist nuns in Sri Lanka. A genealogy of scholarship focusing on the rules of Buddhist monks and nuns led scholars to affirm a clear-cut distinction between nuns who have the higher ordination (bhikkhunῑs) and those who do not have it. However, that distinction is not self-evident, because bhikkhunῑs and other nuns lead lives that do not foreground a juridical notion of rules. The lives of nuns focus on disciplinary practices of self-restraint within a tradition of debate about their recent higher ordinations. Whether or not they are bhikkhunῑs, nuns today refer to rules in ways that are different from that which dominant Vinaya scholarship assumes. This article proposes that it is misleading to differentiate Buddhist nuns based on an enumeration of their rules and argues that nuns’ attitudes to rules say more about attempts to authorize claims to power in current debates about their ordination than about their disciplinary practice as a communal form of life.

scholarly journals Psychological aspects of the relationship of consciousness mechanisms and individualization of learning

2019 ◽  
pp. 172-185
Author(s):  
A. Guslyakova ◽  
N. Guslyakova ◽  
M. Vetkhova ◽  
V. Kirsanov
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Goal Setting ◽  
Historical Aspects ◽  
Professional Activities ◽  
Joint Activities ◽  
Form Of Life ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Social Uncertainty ◽  
The Relationship

The article covers the problem of the relationship of teacher’s consciousness and the individualization of learning. Special attention is paid to the historical aspects of the problem of individualization of education and its various interpretations in the works of researchers. It is shown that today the situation of social uncertainty, which requires a person to constantly choose a social position, action, way of achieving their goals, stands behind the problem of educational individualization. The professional consciousness of the teacher is considered as a form of life of the subject, providing a solution to professional problems in the process of teaching. Taking into account the relationship between consciousness and the individualization of learning, the authors show how this problem is resolved when the reflection and goal-setting mechanisms are included in the paradigm of joint activities between a teacher and a student, ensuring the development of professional and pedagogical consciousness at the stage of higher education. Thus, educational and professional activities and mechanisms for the development of consciousness of subjects of activity, conditioning each other, find their place in the context of solving problems of implementing the individualization of learning of the subject (child).

scholarly journals Blood feud through the historical imagination of Ismail Kadare: An analysis of "Broken April"

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brunilda Pali ◽  
Robert Mackay
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Management ◽  
Law And Literature ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Historical Imagination ◽  
Form Of Life ◽  
Customary Laws ◽  
Political Conditions ◽  
Emerging Themes ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This paper explores the practice of the blood feud refracted through the prism of Ismail Kadare’s Broken April (1978), which is set in early 20th century Albania. Analysis of emerging themes reveals some important insights for Law and Literature. We examine the relationship of the blood feud with a number of themes, which fall under the structural headings of socio-political conditions, social ethos and values, and mechanisms of conflict management. Situating the author’s agenda within a perspective of historical imagination, between history and epic, past and present, suggests the perspective of la longue durée in relation to customary laws and feuding. That insight in turn prompts reflections about the survival and continuation of blood feuding as a form of life in contemporary societies.

Women who jump into wells: Reflections on suicidality in women from conflict regions of the Indian subcontinent

2011 ◽  
Vol 48 (5) ◽  
pp. 585-603 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaswant Guzder
Keyword(s):  
Suicidal Ideation ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Suicide Behavior ◽  
Refugee Claimants ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Historical Legacies

This paper examines narratives of women from the Indian subcontinent, including Canadian refugee claimants, emerging from the conflict regions of Pakistan, Punjab, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, who have presented suicidal ideation or attempts or died by suicide. The focus is on the relationship of suicide and suicide behavior to particular systemic stressors related to familial, social, and group agendas. The vulnerability of individual women is presented in the context of gender issues, deeply embedded group trauma, historical legacies, and intragenerational dynamics, as well as acute stressors that contribute to the underlying distress of these women.

What’s in a Definition?Holistic Nursing, Integrative Health Care, andIntegrative Nursing: Report of an Integrated Literature Review

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 260-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noreen Cavan Frisch ◽  
David Rabinowitsch
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Holistic Nursing ◽  
Integrative Health ◽  
Integrative Health Care ◽  
Whole Person ◽  
Disciplinary Practice ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Distinct Method

Background: Nurses and others have used various terms to describe our caring/healing approach to practice. Because terms used can influence our image of ourselves and the image others have of us, we sought to clarify their meanings. Questions: How are the terms holistic nursing, integrative health care, and integrative nursing defined or described? Do we identify with these definitions/descriptions? Are the various terms the same or are they distinct? Method: We conducted an integrated review of peer-reviewed literature following the process described by Whittemore and Knafl. Using standard search methods, we reviewed full texts of 94 published papers and extracted data from 58 articles. Findings: Holistic describes “whole person care” often acknowledging body–mind–spirit. Holistic nursing defines a disciplinary practice specialty. The term integrative refers to practice that includes two or more disciplines or distinct approaches to care. Both terms, integrative and holistic, are associated with alternative/complementary modalities and have similar philosophical and/or theoretical underpinnings. Conclusions: There is considerable overlap between holistic nursing and integrative nursing. The relationship of integrative nursing to integrative health care is unclear based solely on definitions. Consideration of terms used provides opportunities for reflection, collaboration, and growth.

Differential Growth as Evidence of the Relationship of Monochamus notatus (Drury) and M. scutellatus (Say) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae),

1954 ◽  
Vol 86 (10) ◽  
pp. 465-470 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. M. Gardiner
Keyword(s):  
Compound Eye ◽  
Median Line ◽  
Differential Growth ◽  
Eastern Canada ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Anatomical Difference ◽  
Monochamus Notatus ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Wood Boring

Monochamus notatus (Drury) and M. scutellatus (Say) are both common wood-boring beetles in the coniferous forests of eastern Canada. The two species are usually separated on the basis of colour. The first is dark brown with lighter brown elytra, and is covered with white and brown pubescence, while the second , is typicaliy shining black. The scutellum of each bears a dense white pubescence which, in the case of M. notatus, is divided by a bare median line. Such a line also occurs in M. scutellatus but is usually incomplete. The writer has found that the presence or absence of a fringe of white hair around the compound eye constitutes the most consistent anatomical difference between the two species, it being present only in M. notatus. The elytra of the females of both species are generally marked with elongate spots. Body length is also used to separate the two species, but no clear-cut difference in length ranges occurs; instead, there is considerable overlap.

scholarly journals Tax Revenue and Government Expenditure in Sri Lanka: An Econometric AEG Testing Approach

2016 ◽  
Vol 66 ◽  
pp. 31-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.L.M. Aslam
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Government Expenditure ◽  
Tax Revenue ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Short Run ◽  
Independent Variable ◽  
The Government ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Cointegration Relationship

In the global economic administration, tax revenue has been identified as the engine of the government expenditure, but the relationship of them was not investigated econometrically, this situation formulated a research gap for tasting the relationship of them. The aim of this study was to examine the Cointegration relationship among the tax revenue and the government expenditure in Sri Lanka. This study considered two time series variables such as the tax revenue and the government expenditure. The tax revenue was considered as the independent variable and the government expenditure was considered as the dependent variable. The sample period of this study was from 1950 to 2013.The Cointegration technique was used to check the long run relationship and the Error Correction Mechanism was employed to investigate the short run behavior of the tax revenue on the government expenditure. According to the empirical results, the R-squared of the estimated model was 0.99. In the meantime, the Durbin Watson statistics was 0.828. However, this model did not suffer from the spurious problem because the residual of this model was stationary. The tax revenue has sustained positive relationship with government expenditure. And also, the partial coefficients of tax revenue and its probability values in the estimated model were 0.695 (0.000) in short run and 1.031 (0.000) in long run periods. Therefore, the tax revenue and government expenditure had cointegrated at level form I(0) and maintained the long and short run relationship between them.

scholarly journals IMPACT OF ENVIRONMENT, ENERGY AND FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT ON EXPORTS OF SELECTIVE SAARC COUNTRIES

2020 ◽  
pp. 106-113
Author(s):  
Wajiha Manzoor ◽  
Nabeel Safdar
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Domestic Credit ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Foreign Direct Investment Inflows

This study focused on the relationship of environment, energy used and foreign direct investment inflows on exports of selective SAARC countries including Pakistan , Bangladesh , India , Sri Lanka and Nepal from 1980-2018. The results revealed that environment has significant positive impact on exports. Energy has also positive impact on exports except Pakistan and Nepal where results showed negative relationship. The FDI inflow in India and Sri Lanka has not significant impact on exports while other three countries has significant impact on exports of those countries. Overall environment, energy used and foreign direct investment inflows have positive impact on export while controlling the impact of inflation, GDP growth, reserves and domestic credit to private sector in SAARC countries.

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