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The Continuing Role Of Therav Da Buddhism In Khmer Healing And Social Development
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Author : Samuel O'Keefe
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2019-10-23
The Continuing Role Of Therav Da Buddhism In Khmer Healing And Social Development written by Samuel O'Keefe and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-23 with Religion categories.
Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2018 in the subject Theology - Miscellaneous, grade: 90.00, , course: Contemporary Cambodian Studies, language: English, abstract: This study examines 1) the role that Theravāda Buddhism plays today in Cambodian society and the precise ideals and processes within the philosophy conducive to psychological healing and larger social development, and 2) the cultural competencies upheld by NGOs providing relief from trauma caused by the aforementioned issues, paying specific attention to ways in which these NGOs do and do not harness the healing powers and moral precepts of Theravāda Buddhism. Research findings suggest the fruitfulness of Buddhist-oriented approaches to psychological healing and social development in a country exhibiting high rates of undiagnosed mental illness and low mental health literacy in the rural provinces, which demonstrate the highest mental health burden. A gradual yet targeted integration of Buddhist spiritual personnel and institutions with psychological and psychosocial support NGOs would be efficacious in enhancing the cultural competency of NGOs’ approaches while also extending the geographic reach of counseling efforts and resources to the most marginalized in the country. In Cambodia, trauma lingering from the Khmer Rouge era genocide, combined with that produced by compounded social issues including child sexual abuse, human trafficking, and gender-based violence (GBV), contribute to one of highest rates in the world of what a Western diagnostic model would define as PTSD. Such imbricated realities in Cambodia remain stigmatized, taboo, and misunderstood within Khmer society, oftentimes hindering the healing process for survivors at the individual and community levels. NGOs analyzed in this study seek to provide psychological and psychosocial support to those experiencing trauma from these events, and concurrently promote education on these issues. Considering the predominantly Western origins of national NGO donors, this study is one of the first to examine cultural competence in the context of national NGOs and trauma stemming from contemporary violence in Cambodia. My research examines the impact and sustainability of these organizations’ approaches toward supporting the holistic healing needs of those experiencing trauma or distress, with an eye toward how Theravāda Buddhist principles are incorporated into these support and development methods. Adoption of a Buddhist spiritual lens was informed and encouraged by both primary and secondary research that revealed the healing and social development tools immanent within Buddhist teachings.
Healing Cambodia
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Author : Benoit Duchateau-Arminjon
language : en
Publisher: Editions Didier Millet
Release Date : 2013-02-19
Healing Cambodia written by Benoit Duchateau-Arminjon and has been published by Editions Didier Millet this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-19 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
After years of civil war, the bloody Khmer Rouge regime, and occupation by Vietnam, Cambodia finds itself decimated and divided. Benoît Duchâteau-Arminjon, a.k.a. Bénito, discovers this world when he visits a refugee camp on the country's border with Thailand and experiences a profound emotional shock. He decides to put his promising career as a financial controller on hold and spend a year setting up a welfare center for abandoned children. Since then, he has devoted his life to these children through the foundation he established in 1991--Krousar Thmey--or "new family." A talented manager, Bénito set up a well-run organization and gradually turned its operation over to Cambodians. As of 2012, a staff of 400 is supporting some 4,000 children in welfare centers for street children, family shelters, and schools for blind or deaf children. In this context, Khmer Braille and Khmer Sign Language were developed, for the first time allowing children with these disabilities to get an education. Krousar Thmey was the recipient of the Human Rights Prize granted by the French Republic in 2003 and UNESCO's Wenhui Award in 2010. The foundation marked its 20th anniversary in 2011. In October 2012 in New York, Bénito received the World of Children Humanitarian Award, hailed in the media as the "Nobel Prize for child advocates." As he tells his story, Bénito, who was granted Cambodian citizenship by King Norodom Sihanouk and Prime Minister Hun Sen in 2000, helps lift us out of cliché-ridden discourse to take a fresh look at the humanitarian world.
Healing The Wounds Of Cambodia
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Author : Sahara Chea
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-06-06
Healing The Wounds Of Cambodia written by Sahara Chea and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-06 with categories.
Lulu In The Sky
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Author : Loung Ung
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2012-04-17
Lulu In The Sky written by Loung Ung and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-17 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Concluding the trilogy that started with the bestselling memoir First They Killed My Father, Loung Ung describes her college experience and her first steps into adulthood, revealing her struggle to reconcile with her past while moving forward towards happiness. After the violence of the Khmer Rouge and the difficult assimilation experience of a refugee, Loung’s daily struggle to keep darkness, anger, and depression at bay will finally find two unexpected allies: the empowering call of activism, and the redemptive power of love. Lulu in the Sky is the story of Loung’s journey to a Cambodian village to reconnect with her mother’s spirit; to a vocation that will literally allow her to heal the landscape of her birth; and to the transformative influence of a supportive marriage to a loving man.
After The Heavy Rain
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Author : Sokreaksa S. Himm
language : en
Publisher: Monarch Books
Release Date : 2013-03-07
After The Heavy Rain written by Sokreaksa S. Himm and has been published by Monarch Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-07 with Religion categories.
Thirteen of Reaksa Himm's immediate family, including both his parents, were executed by the Khmer Rouge under Pol Pot. The young killers marched them from the remote northern village to which they had been exiled, out into the jungle. One by one the machetes fell. Severely wounded, Reaksa was covered by the bodies of his family. His remarkable story of survival is told in 'The Tears of My Soul'. In this second book he describes how he tracked down his family's killers, one by one, embraced them, gave them a scarf of friendship and presented each with a Bible. He has also funded and had built a clinic, school and five churches in the area. This is an astonishing tale of the consequences of spiritual rebirth.
People Of Virtue
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Author : Alexandra Kent
language : en
Publisher: NIAS Press
Release Date : 2008
People Of Virtue written by Alexandra Kent and has been published by NIAS Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
Much attention has been given to the killing fields' of Cambodia, Far less to how the country can recover and heal itself after such an experience. Crucial to this process has been the formation of a new moral order in Cambodia and hence the revival of religion in the country. Certainly the regeneration of the ritual life of a community may offer ways for people to formulate and relate to their collective stories through symbolism that recalls a shared cultural origin. However, this process requires that the representatives of religion and of morality do have credibility and moral authority, something that may be called into question by their past and present involvement in hegemonic political and secular affairs.
Healing Invisible Wounds
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Author : Richard F. Mollica
language : en
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Release Date : 2009
Healing Invisible Wounds written by Richard F. Mollica and has been published by Vanderbilt University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
In these personal reflections on his thirty years of clinical work with victims of genocide, torture, and abuse in the United States, Cambodia, Bosnia, and other parts of the world, Richard Mollica describes the surprising capacity of traumatized people to heal themselves. Here is how Neil Boothby, Director of the Program on Forced Migration and Health at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, describes the book: "Mollica provides a wealth of ethnographic and clinical evidence that suggests the human capacity to heal is innate--that the 'survival instinct' extends beyond the physical to include the psychological as well. He enables us to see how recovery from 'traumatic life events' needs to be viewed primarily as a 'mystery' to be listened to and explored, rather than solely as a 'problem' to be identified and solved. Healing involves a quest for meaning--with all of its emotional, cultural, religious, spiritual and existential attendants--even when bio-chemical reactions are also operative." Healing Invisible Wounds reveals how trauma survivors, through the telling of their stories, teach all of us how to deal with the tragic events of everyday life. Mollica's important discovery that humiliation--an instrument of violence that also leads to anger and despair--can be transformed through his therapeutic project into solace and redemption is a remarkable new contribution to survivors and clinicians. This book reveals how in every society we have to move away from viewing trauma survivors as "broken people" and "outcasts" to seeing them as courageous people actively contributing to larger social goals. When violence occurs, there is damage not only to individuals but to entire societies, and to the world. Through the journey of self-healing that survivors make, they enable the rest of us not only as individuals but as entire communities to recover from injury in a violent world.
Running Toward The Guns
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Author : Chanty Jong
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2020-12-23
Running Toward The Guns written by Chanty Jong and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-23 with History categories.
Running Toward the Guns is an autobiographical story and an accounting of Chanty Jong's personal inner self-healing journey that led to a successfully unexpected discovery. Jong survived the Cambodian genocide during the Khmer Rouge regime of 1975-1979, witnessing the horrors of the killing fields, torture, starvation and much more. Her vivid narrative recounts the suffering under the Khmer Rouge, her perseverance to survive physically and emotionally and her perilous escape to America. Her memoir relives the traumatic memories of her experiences and traces her arduous personal transformation toward a life of inner peace through intensive meditation.
Reflections Of A Khmer Soul
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Author : Navy Phim
language : en
Publisher: Navy Phim
Release Date : 2007
Reflections Of A Khmer Soul written by Navy Phim and has been published by Navy Phim this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In a lyrical journey of self-acceptance, the author questions and comes to term with the Killing Fields and other genocides. She explores what it means to be a child of the Killing Fields raised in the United States.
History Buddhism And New Religious Movements In Cambodia
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Author : John Marston
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2004-06-30
History Buddhism And New Religious Movements In Cambodia written by John Marston and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-06-30 with Religion categories.
This volume showcases some of the most current and exciting research being done on Cambodian religious ideas and practices by a new generation of scholars from a variety of disciplines. The different contributors examine in some manner the relationship between religion and the ideas and institutions that have given shape to Cambodia as a social and political body, or nation. Although they do not share the same approach to the idea of "nation," all are concerned with the processes of religion that give meaning to social interaction, which in some way includes "Cambodian" identity. Chapters touch on such far-reaching theoretical issues as the relation to religion of Southeast Asian polity; the nature of colonial religious transformation; "syncretism" in Southeast Asian Buddhism; the relation of religious icon to national identity, religion, and gender; transnationalism and social movements; and identity among diaspora communities. While much has been published on Cambodia's recent civil war and the Pol Pot period and its aftermath, few English language works are available on Cambodian religion. This book takes a major step in filling that gap, offering a broad overview of the subject that is relevant not only for the field of Cambodian studies, but also for students and scholars of Southeast Asian history, Buddhism, comparative religion, and anthropology. Contributors: Didier Bertrand, Penny Edwards, Elizabeth Guthrie, Hang Chan Sophea, Anne Hansen, John Marston, Kathryn Poethig, Ashley Thompson, Teri Shaffer Yamada.