Meditating for Mental Health? Modern Predicaments and Buddhist Responses in Republican China
Religions May 2, 2026 Matteo Sgorbati
This paper examines the discourse surrounding the relationship between meditation and psychological well-being from a historical perspective. While both Buddhist practitioners and psychotherapists aspire to a state of health, they appear to diverge on what this goal entails and how to achieve it. Influential voices such as Conze and Jung have argued that psychotherapy and Buddhist meditation...