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Article: Humanistic Buddhism: a vision for the future.
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- Yasodhara-Newsletter on International Buddhist Women's Activities
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- January 1, 2004
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Humanistic Buddhism for Social Well-being: An Overview of Grand Mater Hsing Yun's Interpretation in Theory and Practice by Ananda W.P. Guruge, Buddha's Light Publishing, Los Angeles, USA. (pp.123).
Colombo -- In describing Buddhism we use such terms as 'hinayana' and 'mahayana' to refer to its main traditions or 'early' and 'later' to refer to its chronological developments. Often we do talk about Thai or Sri Lankan Buddhism referring to particular characteristics of Buddhism as practised in different localities in the Buddhist world.
The term 'humanistic Buddhism', however, does hot seem to connote any of this. It is neither a historical tradition of ...