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Theravada in Everyday Life with Brooke Schedneck

The Lion’s Roar Podcast

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Theravada Buddhism in Southeast Asia

Buddhism is fragile we need to protect it even though we're in this like privileged majority position. There's a diversity of practices and spiritual resources within the Theravada Buddhist complex. If people are reaching to these kinds of other resources that don't seem like Buddhists maybe are mentioned in the Buddhist like dhamma or in the Buddhist textbooks just means they feel safer with those types of practices. These are the kinds of things that religion is also used for it's not just used for what do you believe in and are you going to get to your end goal? That's what the lived Theravada can tell us about yeah I say.

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