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A scholarship is an award of access to an institution or a financial aid award for an individual (a "scholar") for the purposes of furthering their education. A scholarship may be awarded based on range of criteria, which usually reflect the views or purposes of the donor or founder of the award.
Another meaning of “scholarship“ is the pursuit of a research subject, usually in arts or humanities (as opposed to science). In both scholarly and scientific fields, the word “scholarship“ is used to mean deep mastery of a research subject, often achieved through university studies.
Types of scholarships
Scholarships may be classified into three primary groups.
- Merit-based - financial aid for which financial need is not used to determine the recipient. The recipient may be determined by students’ athletic, academic, artistic or other abilities. The actual monetary value of the scholarship may be negligible, the scholarship being meant to motivate the student and promote the study of the subject. However, this is not always the case and the largest scholarships are almost always merit-based.
- Need-based - financial aid for which the student and family’s financial situation is a primary factor in determining the recipient. Usually such scholarship will cover all or part of the tuition and may even cover living-costs. Very often even need-based private scholarships require the awardees to be distinguished students, as the deed founding the award may include a phrase like: “for the studies of founder's favourite subject in founder's favourite institution of higher education for a talented youths of limited means from founder's home town/county/state etc.“
- Ethnicity-based - financial aid where applicants must initially qualify by race, religion, or national origin. After filtering the applicants based on their ethnicity, additional factors are taken into consideration to determine the final recipients.
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Event: Propaganda or scholarship..he dilemma of an ecclesiastical historian: Part of the History and Faith Lecture... http://bit.ly/4A71su
UniofPlym (The Uni of Plymouth) Wed, 06 Jan 2010 04:34:05 -0000
Event: Propaganda or scholarship..he dilemma of an ecclesiastical historian: Part of the History and Faith Lecture... http://bit.ly/4A71su
@RevJBuxton I need the Holy Ghost because I think throwing away 2 millenia of scholarship and history is a bad idea? Fascinating insight.
tragic_pizza (John Harrison) Sat, 02 Jan 2010 13:22:57 -0000
@RevJBuxton I need the Holy Ghost because I think throwing away 2 millenia of scholarship and history is a bad idea? Fascinating insight.
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A Time to Chant: The Soka Gakkai Buddhists in Britain - A review by Brian Brocking in the online Journal of Buddhist Ethics of A Time to Chant: The Soka Gakkai Buddhists in Britain authored by Bryan Wilson and Karel Dobbelaere.
Analytical Psychology and Buddhism of Nichiren Daishonin - Erika Gsell provides a brief scholarly comparison of some aspects of the theoretical and practical approaches of Nichiren Buddhism with aspects of Jungian analytical psychology.
Buddhist Information of North America: Lotus Sutra Study Center - Offers biographies of various Lotus Sutra commentators, along with select academic lectures.
Buddhist Myth - A collection of Buddhist myths, parables, and essays.
Meta Description: [ If the True Dharma is non-discriminating, why do some people reach enlightenment before others? ]
Ethics and the Lotus Suutra - Paper by Peggy Morgan which discusses ethical imperatives associated with historical and religious claims primarily within the Rissho Kosekai Buddhist experience.
Imagery of Nichiren's Works - Attempts to convey the complex imagery behind the root characters (chinese radicals) from their simple meanings.
Meta Description: [ The study of Nichiren Buddhist terms and concepts through an examination of the Chinese characters that compose them ]
Japanese Buddhist Schools and Teaching: Nichiren School - Offers excerpted biographical entry describing Nichiren from the Encyclopedia of Eastern Philosophy and Religion.
Meta Description: [ Manjushri - Japanese Nichiren School Teaching ]
New Religious Movements: Nichiren Shoshu - Student paper profiling Nichiren Shoshu's history, beliefs, issues and controversies with links, abstracts, and bibliography.
New Religious Movements: Soka Gakkai - Student paper (University of Virginia, 1999) profiling Soka Gakkai's history, beliefs, issues and controversies. Includes links, abstracts and a print bibliography.
Nichiren and the Lotus Sutra - Syllabus and bibliography of works on Nichiren's historical background, career, philosophy and tradition by Jacquiline Stone.
Nichiren Shonin's View of Humanity - Endo Asai considers Nichiren's view of the human state in terms of both thought and actual circumstances. (PDF file, Adobe Acrobat reader software required).
Nichiren, the Buddhist Prophet of the Truth - Collection of quotes and summaries, with links to full text writings based on translations found in the Yampolsky edition of Letters of Nichiren (translated by Burton Watson et al.).
PHILTAR Encyclopedia Entry: Nichiren Buddhism - St Martin's College Department of Religion and Ethics synopsis of Nichiren Buddhism.
Presentation on the Lotus Sutra - Lectures on the Lotus Sutra by Rev. Shokai Kanai of the Nichiren Shu.
Meta Description: [ Lectures on the Lotus Sutra. Practical advice for our everyday life, through the wisdom of Mahayana Buddhism, and Nichiren Daishi's insight. ]
Rebuking the Enemies of the Lotus - Article by Jacqueline Stone featured in a Special issue of the Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, which offers a brief historical overview outlining the origins of Lotus exclusivism in Nichiren's thought and how it affected the development of this branch of Buddhism. (PDF file, Adobe Acrobat reader software required).
Rissho University - Department of Nichiren Buddhism and a research institute in Nichiren Buddhist Studies established to educate student priests of the Nichiren sect of Buddhism.
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