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| Engaged Buddhism for social welfare: worgking with the disabled youth in Srilanka and East Europe | ||
| 作者 | Seneheweera, Leena (著) |
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| 出處題名 | The Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Universities |
| 卷期 | v.11 n.1 |
| 出版日期 | 2018 |
| 頁次 | 324 - 330 |
| 出版者 | International Association of Buddhist Universities |
| 出版者網址 | http://www.iabu.org/ |
| 出版地 | Thailand [泰國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Author affiliation: Department of Fine Arts,University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka |
| 關鍵詞 | social welfare; Buddhist meditation and songs; disabled youth; healing and inclusion |
| 摘要 | The current study investigates that the engagement of Buddhism for social welfare by working experience with disabled youth in Sri Lanka and Croatia from the East Europe. Disabled people are the vulnerable group in the society and they need social welfare services. Therefore the study has selected this group from a different social context. The UN conventions have created the recommendations of social welfare services for the disabilities as human rights and social justice within the legal framework. But the argument of the study is that from the perspective of Buddhist meditation, and Buddhist songs has been engaged for healing the disabled youth’s mind and inclusion to the typical society as a social welfare services. The study is engaged by my own services as well as working experiences with Autistic, Down’ syndrome, mental retardation youths form Sri Lankan and Croatian groups. It is proceeded the qualitative research method. On the basis of this approach the study has selected some youth from the special schools, residential disabled centers and homes in the city of Kandy, Sri Lanka and the city in Zagreb, Croatia. The research was conducted within six months in Croatia and six months in Sri Lanka of a year through meditation workshops, education seminars, speeches and Practical programs of Buddhist songs. The results proved that the engagement of Buddhism could be practiced to heal the mind, remove the negative feelings and inclusion of disabilities into the society in different cultural contexts through Buddhist social welfare activities. |
| 目次 | Problem 325 Introduction 325 Case Study of The Croatian Experience Through Buddhist Meditation for Physical Disabilities 326 Case Study of The Sri Lankan Experience with Buddhist Songs for Autistic and Down’ Syndrom Youth 328 Discussion 331 Conclusion 332 |
| ISSN | 19068190 (P) |
| 點閱次數 | 122 |
| 建檔日期 | 2021.08.04 |
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