The Pure Land revisited: Sino-Japanese meditations and near-death experiences of the next world.
C. Becker
Journal of Near-Death Studies 1984 DOI: 10.17514/jnds-1984-4-1-p51-68 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Topics | Meditation Near-death experience |
| Key points | Argues that Buddhist meditation techniques connected to Pure Land visions and deathbed visions show parallels with modern American near-death and deathbed visions, suggesting a comparative relationship between traditional Buddhist visionary practices and contemporary near-death experiences. |
Abstract
This paper examines Buddhist meditation techniques as they apply to Pure Land visions and deathbed visions, particularly with their parallelism to modern American near-death and deathbed visions.
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|---|---|---|---|
| Otherworld Journeys: Accounts of Near-Death Experience in Medieval and Modern Times | 1987 | Historical analysis | |
| Neuroscience and the Near-Death Experience: Roles for the NMSA-PCP receptor, the sigma receptor and the endopsychosins | 1990 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Implications of near-death experiences for a postmaterialist psychology. | 2010 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Near-Death Experience as a Probe to Explore (Disconnected) Consciousness | 2020 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Near-death experiences between science and prejudice | 2012 | Theoretical or philosophical paper |