Journal of Meditation based Psychological Counseling
April 30, 2026
Gwiyeon Jeong
This study conducted a meta-analysis to systematically evaluate the effectiveness of Buddhist meditation intervention programs on psychological health outcomes. A total of 138 studies published between 2024 and 2025, listed in KCI-indexed or KCI-candidate journals, involving 6,366 participants were analyzed. Effect sizes were computed using Hedges’ g under a random-effects model to account for...
Religions
April 29, 2026
Hengfu Zhu, L H Zhu
This study examines the Vajra Exorcism Dance—commonly known as “Beating the Devils” (tiao buzha)—as performed at Yonghegong Lamasery in Beijing, positioning it as a quintessential example of monastic Nuoxi in which ritual form serves as the active embodiment of doctrinal content. By situating the performance within its historical, religious, and socio-political contexts, this paper argues that...
Libra
April 29, 2026
James Macnee
This dissertation is a study of the philosophy of meditation. It undertakes a philosophical investigation of Longchenpa’s Chos dbyings mdzod (Treasury of Reality’s Expanse), a seminal work at the intersection of philosophy, contemplation, and poetry by one of Tibet’s greatest poets and philosophers. Centering on breakthrough practice (khregs chod), it argues that awareness unframed is a form of...
University Library Heidelberg
April 28, 2026
Rolf Scheuermann
The climate crisis is arguably one of today’s greatest challenges and the Buddhist doctrine offers a foundation for a comprehensive approach to environmental activism, grounded in core principles such as mindfulness, compassion, and dependent origination (pratītyasamutpāda). Consequently, many Buddhists have turned to environmental activism, trying to find their own ways of expression. This...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
April 26, 2026
Vassilis Papathanasiou
The field of contemplative neuroscience has spent three decades building a sophisticated apparatus for operationalizing Buddhist phenomenological categories — producing mechanism-specific taxonomies, neurophenomenological methods, and tradition-specific psychometrics. The Eastern Christian hesychast tradition contains an equally systematic — and in certain respects scientifically more tractable...
Journal of Maharishi Vedic Research Institute
April 25, 2026
Joanna Wanta
International studies conducted around the world have considered important human traits such as wellbeing and self-esteem. The present study seeks to add further insight to that body of understanding. The research group consisted of 399 people—187 Europeans, 138 Americans, and 74 people from other countries. Participants were assigned to five personal development study groups, engaged in one or...
Journal of The Scientific Mysticism and Literature
April 20, 2026
Zohra Aliyeva, Amina Aliyeva
This paper offers an in-depth comparative analysis of the concepts of Carl Gustav Jung (1875–1961) and the Masnavi poetry of Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207–73) regarding the theme of the inner path and the soul's archetypes. Despite the apparent dichotomy, Jungian analytical psychology and the Sufi mystical tradition reveal remarkable similarities in their understanding of human consciousness...
Scientia et Fides
April 16, 2026
Berenika Seryczyńska, Tomasz Duda
Debates on AI primarily focus on its moral implications and capacity to simulate religious experiences. However, an analysis of pilgrimage offers a unique perspective on broader transformations in religious practice, ranging from traditional spiritual journeys to modern, technology-assisted routes organized by travel agencies. Equipped with technological conveniences, emphasize efficiency and...
Sophia
April 16, 2026
Milad Milani, Zolt Salontai
Abstract This article offers a comparative study of the religious epistemologies of Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī and Gregory Palamas, highlighting their shared resistance to the overintellectualization of theology through Greek philosophical categories. Both thinkers critique the limitations of Aristotelian and Platonic conceptions of knowledge, particularly their abstraction of the divine and the...
Front Psychol
April 10, 2026
Consciousness in Zen meditation has garnered considerable interest in psychology and neuroscience, particularly in relation to its association with enhanced self-awareness. Zen meditation fosters social harmony by addressing mental and social conflicts, linking individuals to various societal aspects through the practice. This meditation, rooted in Buddhism, aims to perceive thoughts without...
Archiv für Begriffsgeschichte
April 9, 2026
Bret W. Davis
This article examines how the Zen Buddhist tradition has conceived of the relation between intellectual knowledge and holistic wisdom. It begins with some reflections on Aristotle and the history of Western philosophy in order to pose the metaphilosophical question of whether, in modern times, philo-sophia has become more narrowly philo-epistēmē. With this critical question in mind, and in...
Jurnal Penelitian Agama Hindu
April 8, 2026
Gede Agus Siswadi, Lasiyo Lasiyo, Rr. Siti Murtiningsih
Talking about sex is often regarded as a taboo subject and something that should not be discussed in public. In fact, understanding the true nature of sexuality is very important and even necessary in order to avoid deviant sexual behavior. This study aims to examine the philosophical dimension of Smara Sādhanā, or sacred sexuality, in the Kama Tattwa manuscript through the perspective of...
Neurons and Neurological Disorders
April 8, 2026
Xinghong Yang
Sleep Paralysis (SP) is a well-documented neurological condition characterized by a dissociation between a waking mind and a temporarily paralyzed body during Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep. While modern science attributes these episodes to irregular sleep patterns or stress, prescribing behavioral strategies or medication for management, conventional medical models often struggle to fully...
Anxiety, stress, and coping
April 7, 2026
Xiao-Na Zhou, Jun-Lan Liu, Jia-Hui Guo et al.
This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy and mechanisms of a two-week Brief Mindfulness Meditation (BMM) intervention for stress and emotion dysregulation in young Chinese men. In a randomized controlled trial, with 85 male participants (aged 20-30) were assigned to either a two-week BMM intervention (15 min daily) or a control group with neutral audio interventions. Pre- and post-intervention...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
April 7, 2026
Qin Han
Description Six intellectual traditions — Buddhism, philosophical Daoism (Zhuangzi), Christianity (Pauline epistles and mystical tradition), Freud's structural psychoanalysis, Jung's analytical psychology, and SAE psychoanalysis — independently arrive at a structurally similar judgment: the self (the reflexive, boundary-maintaining layer that discriminates "mine" from "not mine") is not the...
International Journal of Versatile Research and Analysis
April 1, 2026
Le Hong Linh, Nguyen Thi Nhien Trang
The discussion of ethics, emotional health and meaningful work has never been so urgent in a fast-moving economic transformation and growing pressures of professional life in modern Vietnam. Drawing on the ancient lineages of Theravāda and Mahāyāna Buddhism, Vietnamese Buddhism provides a rich and ambivalent site by which to engage with these foundational questions through the synthesis of...
Religions
April 1, 2026
Xiaoshuang Liu
Mental illness has become increasingly prominent in the modern individuation process in China. Correspondingly, contemporary shamanic practices in the north of China have gradually focused on mental issues and have constructed an indigenous concept related to them: “virtual illness.” Based on many years of fieldwork conducted in the shamanic regions of the north of China, this study focuses on...