Frontiers in Psychology
September 3, 2026
Yukun Mei, Jiyu Li, Sarawadee Phuchomsri
Buddhist meditation is widely studied in relation to mindfulness, emotion regulation, compassion, and well-being, yet it is often operationalized as an attentional or stress-reduction technique detached from the ethical and cultural conditions of practice. This article develops the ethical-cultural training ecology model, a Hypothesis and Theory framework that treats Buddhist meditation as a...
Dhammacakka Journal of Buddhism and Applied Buddhism
September 1, 2026
Bimal Prasad Gautam
Digital media has played an important role for the globalization, adaptation and practice of Buddhism. The impact of digital media in globalizing Buddhist practices has tried to explore in this article with actual kindness paid to how it changes rituals, transforms communities, creates new forms of material and disembodied practice which has presented both prospects and challenges. This...
Dhammacakka Journal of Buddhism and Applied Buddhism
September 1, 2026
Ven. Silacari
Vipassanā1 meditation is central to modern Theravāda Buddhism, especially in Myanmar has been one of the most influential places in its recent development and international transmission. Although previous studies have examined individual teachers, specific techniques, or modern mindfulness, very few studies connect the historical growth of Myanmar Vipassanā with a structured comparison of its...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 31, 2026
Andreas Ehstand
Priority anchor for the working paper named in the title (megatrends research series): the deposited file contains the paper's own abstract (verbatim, where present) and the SHA-256 fingerprint of the complete paper, which exists locally as of the deposit date. The deposit is restricted; this metadata is the only public part. Erstheits-Anker für das im Titel genannte Arbeits-Papier der...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 31, 2026
Vedanta2.0 Agyat Agyani
Description: Description From Becoming to Being: A Phenomenological Inquiry into Desire, Identity, Masks, and Influence-Free Dharma This paper examines the human tendency to transform life into a continuous project of becoming. It argues that psychologically invested desire often conceals an identity-desire: the wish not merely to possess something, but to become someone through it. The paper...
Mindfulness
August 31, 2026
Gregory Kramer, Fabio Giommi
This paper aimed to present a conceptual framework that facilitates integrating early Buddhist psychology with contemporary psychotherapy. It was conceptual in scope, rooted in the framework of the early Buddhist teachings. While grounded in contemplative and clinical experience, it selectively integrated contemporary scholarship from psychotherapy, contemplative neuroscience, and Buddhist...
Frontiers in Psychology
August 31, 2026
Swapan Samanta
ProblemA persistent observation troubles both positive psychology and contemplative science: people suffer in the midst of success. The wealthy report emptiness; the deeply loved report captivity; the lucid report paralysis; the renunciate remains seized by the identity of renouncing. Existing wellbeing frameworks—utility theory, composite indices, PERMA—explain this poorly because they share a...
Journal of Meditation based Psychological Counseling
August 29, 2026
Pilwon Lee
Purpose: This study aims to clarify the concept, structure, and soteriological purpose of sati practice in Early Buddhism on the basis of Pāli sources, and to analyze the core transformations that occur when sati is transposed into contemporary clinical mindfulness programs. It pays particular attention to the function of sati within jhāna practice, an aspect largely neglected in existing...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 27, 2026
D. Dilhani Indrachapa
The rapid development of technical power and globalization in the twenty first century have enabled mankind to enjoy unprecedented material comforts but at the same time have presented him with complex social and psychological problems. Young people are experiencing significant mental health issues, mainly stress and depression, in a very competitive society today. This paper investigates...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 25, 2026
David (daoud) Matta
Two companion papers examined the Western scientific and Buddhist analyses of consciousness separately. This paper puts them together and argues that the common framing is wrong: across much of their range the traditions address different questions sharing an English word. The argument maps referents. Consciousness science divides its object into level, content, access, and phenomenality,...
Mindfulness
June 29, 2017
Jon Kabat‐zinn
113 citations
Excerpt: What I intend to do in this paper is offer a non-exhaustive perspective on the original core aspirations, as I experienced them, behind introducing mindfulness as a practice and as a way of being into the mainstream world, initially through medicine and health care in the form of MBSR, and then—as the meme and practice took root and interest spread with increasing evidence of its...
PLoS One
May 24, 2017
Jared R. Lindahl, Nathan E. Fisher, David J. Cooper et al.
468 citations
Buddhist-derived meditation practices are currently being employed as a popular form of health promotion. While meditation programs draw inspiration from Buddhist textual sources for the benefits of meditation, these sources also acknowledge a wide range of other effects beyond health-related outcomes. The Varieties of Contemplative Experience study investigates meditation-related experiences...
Mindfulness
February 22, 2016
Marta Alda, Marta Puebla-Guedea, Baltasar Rodero et al.
87 citations
Mindfulness refers to an awareness that emerges by intentionally focusing on the present experience in a nonjudgmental or evaluative manner. Evidence regarding its efficacy has been increasing exponentially, and recent research suggests that the practice of meditation is associated with longer leukocyte telomere length. However, the psychological mechanisms underlying this potential...
Frontiers in Psychology
2014
Jared R. Lindahl, Christopher T. Kaplan, Evan M. Winget et al.
123 citations
The scientific study of Buddhist meditation has proceeded without much attention to Buddhist literature that details the range of psychological and physiological changes thought to occur during meditation. This paper presents reports of various meditation-induced light experiences derived from American Buddhist practitioners. The reports of light experiences are classified into two main types:...
Journal of Psychiatric Practice
July 1, 2012
William R. Marchand
309 citations
Mindfulness has been described as a practice of learning to focus attention on moment-bymoment experience with an attitude of curiosity, openness, and acceptance. Mindfulness practices have become increasingly popular as complementary therapeutic strategies for a variety of medical and psychiatric conditions. This paper provides an overview of three mindfulness interventions that have...
Contemporary Buddhism
May 1, 2011
Ruth A. Baer
271 citations
The commitment to evidence-based practice in clinical psychology requires scientific investigation of the effects of treatment and mechanisms of change. Empirical evidence suggests that mindfulness-based treatments provide clinically meaningful improvement for people suffering from many important problems, including depression, anxiety, pain, and stress. However, the processes of change that...
Contemporary Buddhism
May 1, 2011
J. Mark G. Williams, Jon Kabat‐zinn
390 citations
The guest editors introduce this special issue on Mindfulness, explaining its rationale, aims, and intentions. Integrating mindfulness-based approaches into medicine, psychology, neuroscience, heal...
PLoS One
September 2, 2008
Giuseppe Pagnoni, Milos Cekic, Ying Guo
189 citations
Recent neuroimaging studies have identified a set of brain regions that are metabolically active during wakeful rest and consistently deactivate in a variety the performance of demanding tasks. This "default network" has been functionally linked to the stream of thoughts occurring automatically in the absence of goal-directed activity and which constitutes an aspect of mental behavior...
Psychology of Music
October 10, 2007
Peter Lin, Joanne Chang, Vance Zemon et al.
94 citations
This study investigated the effects of Chan (Zen) meditation on musical performance anxiety and musical performance quality. Nineteen participants were recruited from music conservatories and randomly assigned to either an eight-week meditation group or a wait-list control group. After the intervention, all participants performed in a public concert. Outcome measures were performance anxiety...
American Psychologist
2006
B. Alan Wallace, Shauna L. Shapiro
606 citations
Clinical psychology has focused primarily on the diagnosis and treatment of mental disease, and only recently has scientific attention turned to understanding and cultivating positive mental health. The Buddhist tradition, on the other hand, has focused for over 2,500 years on cultivating exceptional states of mental well-being as well as identifying and treating psychological problems. This...
Current Biology
June 1, 2005
Olivia Carter, David E. Presti, C. Callistemon et al.
262 citations
Neuroscientific studies of the mind are likely to benefit from the insights and skills of Tibetan Buddhist monks who have practiced the historic tradition of meditative training over many years — a point made recently at a forum between a selection of Buddhist leaders and distinguished scientists [1Barinaga M. Buddhism and neuroscience. Studying the well-trained mind.Science. 2003; 302:...
Current Directions in Psychological Science
April 1, 2005
Paul Ekman, Richard J. Davidson, Matthieu Ricard et al.
295 citations
Stimulated by a recent meeting between Western psychologists and the Dalai Lama on the topic of destructive emotions, we report on two issues: the achievement of enduring happiness, what Tibetan Buddhists call sukha, and the nature of afflictive and nonafflictive emotional states and traits. A Buddhist perspective on these issues is presented, along with discussion of the challenges the...
Neuropsychobiology
2004
T. Murata, T. Takahashi, Toshihiko Hamada et al.
145 citations
Meditation is a specific consciousness state in which deep relaxation and increased internalized attention coexist. There have been various neurophysiological studies on meditation. However, the personal predispositions/traits that characterize the properties of meditation have not been adequately studied. We analyzed changes in neurophysiological parameters [EEG coherence and autonomic nervous...
Numen
1995
Robert H. Sharf
395 citations
Abstract The category “experience” has played a cardinal role in modern studies of buddhism. Few scholars seem to question the notion that Buddhist monastic practice, particularly meditation, is intended first and foremost to inculcate specific religious or “mystical” experiences in the minds of practitioners. Accordingly, a wide variety of Buddhist technical terms pertaining to the “stages on...