This article reviews the ancient Buddhist doctrine of consciousness and its concordance with the psychological heritage of modern science. Firstly, it introduces the nine consciousnesses of Buddhist philosophy, namely, five sensory consciousnesses, plus Mano, Manas, Alaya, and Am...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJASS/2016/29873
This research was carried out in six Local Government Areas of Imo state, Nigeria. Natural resources endowment of any area in the world when properly harnessed can act as a catalyst to the economic life of the area. In an effort to harness these resources, the environment of the...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJASS/2016/28448
This short commentary reviews, on the one hand, the authentic formation and development of Tibetan Tantric Buddhism, an innovative branch that is featured by the transformation of negative emotions (NEs) to a valuable vehicle to reach the enlightenment of consciousness via achiev...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJASS/2016/29736
Asian history and culture have been influenced by a number of religions i.e. Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Christianism, Sikhism, Shamanism, etc. These traditions offer spiritual guidelines but also set moral and ethical standards for the daily life of the people in Asian countries....
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Research Article10.9734/ARJASS/2016/29897
Aim: This study examined challenges to incremental housing development in Ibadan municipality with a view to informing policy that could enhance the progressive building process. Methodology: Data were obtained through questionnaire administration on incremental housing developer...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJASS/2016/28871
This study analyzed the long run relationship between government expenditure and economic growth in Nigeria from 1980 – 2015 using the Johansen co integration technique, Error correction mechanism and Pair wise Granger causality econometric tool of analysis. The results of the st...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJASS/2016/29486
In the last two decades, several member countries of the Economic Communities of West African States (ECOWAS) have put in place several institutional reforms aimed at improving corporate governance. It had been anticipated that the institutionalization of democracy would bring fo...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJASS/2016/29336
This paper is a literary reflection of online shopping systems in Nigeria, its history, trends and prospects. The paper recognized online shopping systems as the collection of tools and telecommunication elements that enables the shopping behavior of initiating and completing bus...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJASS/2016/29170
This article used data from descriptive background to examine the view of Karl Marx on Christian religion in Nigeria today. It examined both the negative and the positive impact of Karl Marx’s view on religion in academia. The study also examined the reality of his view on Christ...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJASS/2016/28326
Life-world represents the background of beliefs, moral values, cultural norms that are presupposed in ordinary life and communication. Our social world evolves through communication that can assume the form of the uses of language (ordinary and extra-ordinary). We will see that b...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJASS/2016/29147