Buddhism

Argues that the medicalization of meditation detaches it from its spiritual meanings and identifies convergences and divergences between Buddhist meditation and Islamic practices, particularly Sufism.

theoretical or philosophical paper

Argues that human identity in the age of AI should be grounded in awakening to deeper, non-dual consciousness rather than technological mastery, drawing parallels between T.S. Eliot's poetics and Buddhist Yogācāra philosophy.

theoretical or philosophical paper

Argues that Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra developed in tandem with restricted tantric practices, containing double entendres that critique transgressive bodily yogas and internalize tantric praxis.

theoretical or philosophical paper

Argues that Daoist internal alchemy techniques, transmitted through Hakuin Ekaku, shaped modern health practices in Japan and China, demonstrating cross-religious influence.

historical analysis

The classical music meditation program increased metacognitive awareness and empathy, with metacognitive awareness partially mediating the relationship between the program and empathy.

intervention study with mediation analysis

Argues that traditional Buddhism provides a cognitive framework for realizing ultimate truth through threefold training and calls for a 'Second Enlightenment' applying critical rationality to cognition.

theoretical or philosophical paper

Argues that early Buddhist cognitive theory, interpreted through a psychosemiotic framework, conceptualizes cognition as a stratified process of sign-constituted events that contemplative practice can modulate.

theoretical or philosophical paper

Argues that in Pāli Buddhist texts, language and semiosis are central to structuring cognitive processes and constituting a shared yet partly subjective world.

theoretical or philosophical paper

Argues that Inner Observation is more adaptable for psychological application, leading to the development of Merging Oblivion Meditation, which uses guided imagination to reduce self-sense and foster nondual awareness.

comparative analysis

Argues that Hartmann's secularized, symbolic interpretation of Buddhism, emphasizing a heroic response to suffering over ascetic withdrawal, served as a model for his envisioned 'religion of the future'.

historical analysis

Argues that Sufi mysticism and Jungian analytical psychology share paths of individuation and self-realization aimed at expanding consciousness and integrating the psyche with the divine.

theoretical or philosophical paper

Argues that Westernised mindfulness-based interventions in oncology should be modified to include education on Buddhist philosophy and transparent communication about the tradition's origins to address ethical concerns about cultural appropriation.

theoretical or philosophical paper

Prompting AI with contemplative principles significantly improves alignment benchmark performance and cooperation in a game-theoretic task.

empirical study

Argues that the Noble Eightfold Path offers a systematic method for attaining wisdom, moral behavior, and mental self-control, with applications in contemporary mental health and mindfulness practices.

theoretical or philosophical paper

Reviews evidence that vocal practices including chanting and prayer are crucial vehicles for transmitting doctrine, cultivating virtues, regulating mental states, and constructing religious communities in Buddhism.

review

Finds that Nirvana is consistently associated with the cessation of craving, ignorance, and suffering, but its interpretation differs across Theravada, Mahayana, and Vajrayana traditions.

qualitative comparative and interpretive approach

Argues that mindfulness meditation enables one to achieve non-self and that genuine happiness is attained by acknowledging reality without mental constructions, through mental conditioning that eliminates aversion, desire, and ignorance.

theoretical or philosophical paper

Reviews how Buddhism and scientific psychology have exerted mutual influences on each other since psychology's inception, including controversies and future trajectories.

review

Argues that mysticism and enlightenment, as expressed across Sufi, Buddhist, Hindu, Christian, and indigenous traditions, share core principles of inner detachment, self-surrender, mindfulness, and moral discipline that contribute to spiritual peace and global harmony.

theoretical or philosophical paper

Argues that Tee Yod offers a cinematic articulation of Buddhist trauma theory, foregrounding healing as a process of awareness and compassion, and challenging Western paradigms of trauma and PTSD.

theoretical or philosophical paper

Argues that the expansion of compassion-oriented practices in Western psychology constitutes a 'second mindfulness revolution' grounded in Buddhist traditions and contemporary psychology.

theoretical or philosophical paper

Argues that Dōgen's intercultural philosophy, expressed through his writings and the practice of zazen, represents a creative reinterpretation of Indian and Chinese Buddhist traditions for a Japanese context, generating new meanings for traditional worldviews.

theoretical or philosophical paper

Argues that contemplative environmental education, drawing on spiritual, Indigenous, and ecological knowledge systems, can address human-nature disconnection and ecological alienation by fostering reverence, love, and embodied awareness.

theoretical or philosophical paper