This qualitative case study examines Buddhist spiritual care for terminal cancer patients through the case of Wat Kham Pramong in Sakon Nakhon Province, Thailand. It addresses three objectives: to examine how the temple responds to patients’ spiritual needs, to identify the Buddhist teachings and practices relevant to those needs, and to assess the approach’s qualitative impact in terminal...
Understanding how intention and karmic accumulation occur within Buddhist ethics benefits from examining the cognitive sequence (citta-vīthi) described in Theravāda Abhidhamma. Standard manuals describe this process for isolated stimuli, but leave open how competing or overlapping objects are resolved under the system’s timing constraints. This paper introduces a typology of attentional capture...
This article presents a summary and analysis of protective practices and devices described in an eighteenth-century manual from Wat Pradusongtham. This temple was an important meditation center during the late Ayutthaya period and the seat of a monk of a Rachakhana rank. The manual describes the legend and characteristics of the Triple Gem Qualities yantras which are three protective diagrams...
This paper critically evaluates the concept of saṅkhāra within early Theravāda Buddhist knowledge, addressing gaps in prior studies by Bandusena Wickranmasinghe Dadanayaka and Venerable Nodhiñana, who primarily emphasize the doctrinal and causal aspects of saṅkhāra without substantial engagement with its psychological implications. This research focuses on saṅkhāra’s role as “mental formations”...
Nowadays in Western countries, there is much interest in studies of Buddhist meditation practice. This article is focused on an analysis of the relationship between brainwaves in electroencephalography (EEG) and concentration practices in Theravāda Buddhism. The following are the findings: meditation has a good effect on the brain. Despite the fact that we can detect these good effects by...
The general conception of paccavekkhana as mindful and wise reflection, and as a key principle in Buddhist meditation practice in meditative concentration is the main concern of this undertaking. Post-Canonical literature are carefully examined for this purpose. This study has affirmed paccavekkhana as an approach to a clear understanding of reality through initial training of dasadhammā as a...
This study attempts to analyze the result of the relationship between cycling and mindfulness practice. While human being is fully occupied and has limited time joining meditation in the temple, applying sport exercised in routine’s daily life became another choice in order to be mindful. This study applied qualitative method by analyze former sport science researches that related to benefits...
This one group pretest-posttest quasi-experimental design aimed to compare mindfulness, stress and depression of nursing students, St Theresa International College on participating in Mindfulness-Based Therapy and Counseling (MBTC). The MBTC consisted of 8 worksheets for 12 sessions. Participants are consisted of 92 students of the second-year nursing students in the course of Ethics and Law in...
This is a comparative study of the meditation techniques between Thai and Chinese Buddhist traditions. On the ground of the knowledge of meditation practices in Pali and Chinese Buddhist canon and meditation techniques prevalent in Thailand and China, this research is to find the similarities and differences between them in way to organize meditation practice, the theoretical basis for...