When Buddhist vipassanā travels to Jewish West Bank settlements: openness without cosmopolitanism
Ethnic and Racial Studies May 27, 2020 Ori Mautner, Nissim Mizrachi
ABSTRACT Insight meditation (vipassanā) originated in Theravāda Buddhism. However, participants in a “Jewish Vipassanā” meditation retreat – held at a Jewish settlement in the West Bank region controlled by Israel since 1967 – often depicted vipassanā as essentially Jewish. Indeed, to validate their adoption of insight meditation, many participants first needed to establish their exclusive...