... Buddhist thought on the subject. One kind of concern has to do with the traditional teaching that some of the most significant events of one's current life are the result of one's actions in past lives. While the Buddha decidedly did not teach that everything that happens to a person...

... of Hawaiʻi's respected kumu hula, a teacher of Hawaiian dance, the author shares his experience in hula—the mentorship and training he received and the cultural practice he now perpetuates. While hula and mele are his preferred media, the author reflects about his personal journey of learning and teaching...

...This essay explores the relationship between academic training in history and teaching world history. Historians are almost always trained to do original archival research, which generally leads to detailed, but narrow, studies. When they are hired into academic positions, they are required...

... Brazilian Los Angeles city Migration Japanese American writer Identity São Paulo city Brazil Maru Yamashita Historical fiction Utopia Dekasegi Asian American Internment Authorship Family Novels Travel Brazil Japan Teaching ARL. With the publication of Anime Wong: Fictions...

.... Teaching the history of Japanese emigration to the Pan-Pacific region not only helps Japanese students to overcome the historical amnesia about their country’s imperial past, but also helps American students to contextualize the migration from Japan to the US within the overall Japanese emigration history...

...What makes a meditation object? This essay explores early Pāli accounts of objects still used in modern practice, especially in Southern Buddhism. Their very variety reflects this tradition’s stress on a graduated path, where different stages and individuals require different teaching approaches...

... education and training sewing uniforms consumption diseases epidemics grippe Hula dance tuberculosis basketball discipline punishment whippings baseball Bucyrus Ohio culture Pope Anne Pope Katherine Pope Prosser Lois American Flag Liliʻuokalani Republic of Hawaii Teaching Staff...

... the term dhaṃma, Aśoka is familiar with its having some specific connotations. For one thing, he is perfectly clear in some inscriptions that he associates it with Buddhism, in its sense of referring to the Buddha's “teaching,” which had made him a convert. Aśoka was also aware...

...This chapter examines the disciplinization of the writing and teaching of history, focusing on a debate from 1954 to 1956 on the periodization of modern Chinese history. This debate gave rise to a new interpretive scheme for modern Chinese history that would dominate the field in the decades...

...This chapter examines the content of the textbooks compiled by the nuns at the Incense Light Buddhist Seminary for the three levels of adult classes and the teaching methods they use. It was Wuyin who realized that the only way to help the faithful to understand Buddhism and practice Buddhist...

...This chapter describes the social teachings of the Buddha. The social life envisaged by the Buddha is one of happy and contented people maintaining balance between their economic growth and inner stability and integrity. They are sufficiently rich in material resources to perform their social...

... on both sides of the Pacific agreed to use their respective environments as laboratories for teaching and learning. However, education is very much embedded in national cultures, a factor that increases the challenge of establishing international learning networks that involve “moving cultures...

... and teaching interactive, web-based courses linking classrooms in six universities located in Hawaii, Singapore, the Philippines, Japan, New Zealand, and Fiji. These collaborative online teaching and learning initiatives were designed specifically to address some of the conceptual and theoretical concerns...