Buddhist-Christian Studies
2026
Matthew Z. Vale
abstract: This article brings together authorities in the Tibetan Mahāmudrā (“Great Seal”) tradition of the Kagyü school with a contemporary, Christian-adjacent account of mind and consciousness, drawn from the psychologist and theologian Daniel Helminiak. It draws them together on the basis of their shared affirmation that conscious states and operations are intrinsically and nontransitively...
Buddhist-Christian Studies
2026
Ursula Baatz
abstract: The practice of sati , mindfulness, is a fundamental exercise of Buddhism, embedded in and explained by Buddhist philosophical reflection. In just a few decades, a largely unknown Buddhist meditation practice has become a method used by psychotherapists, hospitals, and even the U.S. military. Colonialism and the modernization of Buddhism led to a modernization of Vipassana practice....
Buddhist-Christian Studies
2018
Peter Tyler
2 citations
The article explores the practice of oracin mental in the Iberian schools of the sixteenth century "Golden Age," concentrating on the works of two authors: the Exercitatorio de la vida spiritual / Exercitatorium vite spiritualis of Garca Jimnez de Cisneros (1455-1510), abbot of Montserrat from 1493 to 1510 and El Libro de la Vida of St. Teresa of Avila (1515-1582), reformer and first prioress...
Buddhist-Christian Studies
2009
James L. Fredericks
Reviewed by: Healing Breath: Zen for Christians and Buddhists in a Wounded World James L. Fredericks Healing Breath: Zen for Christians and Buddhists in a Wounded World. By Ruben Habito. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2006. xiv + 164 pp. The acknowledgments offered by Ruben Habito in the first pages of his book tell quite a story. Among others, Habito gives thanks to Jesuits of the Japanese...
Buddhist-Christian Studies
2004
Paul O. Ingram
Reviewed by: The Other Side of Nothingness: Toward a Theology of Radical Openness Paul O. Ingram The Other Side of Nothingness: Toward a Theology of Radical Openness. By Beverly J. Lanzetta. Albany: State University of New York, 2001. 182 pp. The central thesis of The Other Side of Nothingness is that apophatic mystical experience offers Christians a theology of humility sensitive to religious...
Buddhist-Christian Studies
1994
Susan Ji-on Postal
At the 1992 International Buddhist Conference held by the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies in Boston, the Practitioners Working Group hosted sessions on Christian Contemplation and Zen Awakening: Practice in Both Traditions. The Group found itself in lively dialogue in a room overflowing with committed and questioning seekers. As a response to this interchange, a follow-up weekend was...
Buddhist-Christian Studies
1994
Judith Simmer-Brown
In the 1980s, the Naropa Institute, the only accredited Buddhism-related college in North America, hosted seven landmark conferences on Buddhist and Christian meditation. Papers and dialogues from these conferences were published in Speaking of Silence: Christians andBuddhists on the Contemplative Way, edited by Susan Walker (New York: Paulist Press, 1987). In this decade, the focus of Naropa's...