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On the Buddhist roots of contemporary non-religious mindfulness practice: Moving beyond sectarian and essentialist approaches

Temenos December 11, 2019 Ville Husgafvel

Mindfulness-based practice methods are entering the Western cultural mainstream as institutionalised approaches in healthcare, education, and other public spheres. The Buddhist roots of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and comparable mindfulness-based programmes are widely acknowledged, together with the view of their religious and ideological neutrality. However, the cultural and...

DOI: 10.33356/temenos.55371 Full text Buddhism Meditation Mindfulness-based stress reduction World religions paradigm

Anna-Leena Siikala (1943-2016)

Temenos June 1, 2016 V. Anttonen

Letters, between 2002 and 2009. Siikala was one of the world's leading scholars of shamanism, narrative traditions, and mythic landscapes among the indigenous peoples of Northern Eurasia.From the 1960s her career charted the course opened by Professors Martti Haavio and Lauri Honko.She adopted an approach to research in which conceptual frameworks developed in the fields of folklore,...

DOI: 10.33356/temenos.58355 Full text

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On the Buddhist roots of contemporary non-religious mindfulness practice: Moving beyond sectarian and essentialist approaches

Anna-Leena Siikala (1943-2016)