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Abstract: The author recounts some of the early history of what is now known as MBSR, and its relationship to mainstream medicine and the science of the mind/body connection and health. He stresses the importance that MBSR and other mindfulness-based interventions be grounded in a universal dharma understanding that is congruent with Buddhadharma but not constrained by its historical, cultural and religious manifestations associated with its counties of origin and their unique traditions. He locates these developments within an historic confluence of two very different epistemologies encountering each other for the first time, that of science and that of the meditative traditions. The author addresses the ethical ground of MBSR, as well as questions of lineage and of skillful ‘languaging’ and other means for maximizing the possibility that the value of cultivating mindfulness in the largest sense can be heard and embraced and cultivated in commonsensical and universal ways in secular settings. He directly addresses mindfulness-based instructors on the subject of embodying and drawing forth the essence of the dharma without depending on the vocabulary, texts, and teaching forms of traditional Buddhist environments, even though they are important to know to one degree or another as part of one’s own development. The author’s perspective is grounded in what the Zen tradition refers to as the one thousand year view. Although it is not stated explicitly in this text, he sees the current interest in mindfulness and its applications as signaling a multi-dimensional emergence of great transformative and liberative promise, one which, if cared for and tended, may give rise to a flourishing on this planet akin to a second, and this time global, Renaissance, for the benefit of all sentient beings and our world.

Abstract: Part I: 1. Introduction: Reconstructing a Journey 2. From Rajadharma (the King's "Whole Duty") to Dharmaraja (the "Righteous Ruler") 3. The Brahmanical Theory of Society and Kingship 4. The Early Buddhist Conception of World Process, Dharma, and Kingship 5. Asoka Maurya: The Paradigm 6. Thai Kingship and Polity in Historical Perspective 7. The Galactic Polity 8. The Kingdom of Ayutthaya: Design and Process 9. Asokan and Sinhalese Traditions Concerning the Purification of the Sangha 10. The Sangha and the Polity: From Ayutthaya to Bangkok 11. The Nineteenth-Century Achievements of Religion and Sangha Appendix to Chapter 11: The Symbolization of Monarchy in the Nineteenth Century 12. The Sangha Acts of 1902, 1941, and 1963 Part II: 13. The Composition and Distribution of Religious Personnel: What the Figures Say 14. Monkhood as an Avenue of Social Mobility 15. Monastic Careers and Monastic Network Appendix to Chapter 15: Monastic Networks in Christian Europe and Thailand 16. Patronage of the Sangha and the Legitimation of the Polity 17. Reformism and Ideological Transformation Based on Tradition 18. Missionary Monks (Thammathud) and National Development Appendix to Chapter 18: The Monks' Universities 19. The Politics of National Development and the Symbols c Legitimacy 20. Dialectical Tensions, Continuities, Transformations, and the Uses of the Past

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Abstract: This study aims to determine the moderating value contained in Geguritan Dharma Sunyata. The data in this study were collected using document study techniques. Furthermore, it is analyzed with the stages of data reduction, data presentation and drawing conclusions. From the results of data analysis, it was found that the value of religious moderation contained in Geguritan Dharma Sunyata was based on the teachings of Tat Twam Asi and Tri Kaya Parisudha. Tat Twam Asi's teachings are the basis of Hindu ethics in an effort to achieve moral improvement. Tat Twam Asi is a teaching that states the similarities between individuals so that it gives birth to the concept of compassion for all creatures in the world. Religious people should respect and appreciate each other even though they adhere to different religions.