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Ngar-sze Lau

3 papers in the library · 11 citations · publishing 2021-2023

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Effects of mindfulness on stress, life satisfaction, and savoring beliefs among Hong Kong Chinese adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Frontiers in Psychology May 15, 2023 Ngar-sze Lau, Rebecca Y. M. Cheung, Cheuk Ki Stephanie Lai et al. 11 citations

Adolescents all over the world are vulnerable in facing developmental challenges. Recent studies have evidenced that the unexpected interruptions of school learning during the COVID-19 pandemic have raised concerns about the well-being of adolescents. This present study sought to investigate the relationship between mindfulness, stress, savoring beliefs, and satisfaction of life among...

Equality of Access? Chinese Women Practicing Chan and Transnational Meditation in Contemporary China

Religions January 20, 2022 Ngar-sze Lau

This paper examines how the Buddhist revival, the Chan revival, and recent popularity of transnational meditation practices have facilitated Chinese women practicing Buddhist meditation in contemporary China. With the influence of the opening of China and growing transnational networks, there has been an increasing number of Han Chinese monastics and lay people practicing transnational...

DOI: 10.3390/rel13010061 (opens in new tab) Full text (opens in new tab) Chan Transnational meditation Han chinese Nuns +1

Teaching Transnational Buddhist Meditation with Vipassanā (Neiguan 內觀) and Mindfulness (Zhengnian 正念) for Healing Depression in Contemporary China

Religions March 21, 2021 Ngar-sze Lau

This paper examines how the teaching of embodied practices of transnational Buddhist meditation has been designated for healing depression explicitly in contemporary Chinese Buddhist communities with the influences of Buddhist modernism in Southeast Asia and globalization. Despite the revival of traditional Chan school meditation practices since the Open Policy, various transnational lay...