Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
December 1, 2011
Zhuo Chen, Qi Wen, Ralph W. Hood et al.
54 citations
This study explores the phenomenological structure of mystical experience among 139 Chinese Pure Land and Chan Buddhist monks and nuns. Semi-structured interviews, thematic coding, and statistical analyses demonstrated that Stace's common facets of mysticism as measured by Hood's Mysticism Scale (M Scale) successfully described Buddhist experience as modified by Buddhist doctrines. Confirmatory...
Inkanyiso
September 13, 2011
Edwards Sd
Breath psychotherapy is an approach that makes direct use of the breath in healing. There are many forms of breathbased healing: basic breathing and relaxation methods, with or without the practice of psychological skills such as imagery, centring and concentration; expressive physical and emotional techniques; advanced meditation, prayer and other spiritual exercises. Such an approach has been...
Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry
September 1, 2011
Angela Nickerson, Devon E Hinton
38 citations
Recent research has highlighted the importance of traditional methods of healing in relation to the treatment of psychological distress in non-Western populations. This pilot study, conducted in Massachusetts, investigates what Buddhist Cambodian monks consider to be the causes, phenomenology and appropriate intervention strategies for anger among Cambodian refugees. Six monks were interviewed...
Psyke & Logos
July 31, 2011
Louise Fransgaard
2 citations
Artiklen præsenterer indledningsvis det buddhistiske fundament bag de senere års terapeutiske anvendelse af mindfulnessmeditation og -filosofi i vesten. Med to forskellige mindfulnessbaserede terapitilgange som eksempel på den såkaldte tredje bølge inden for adfærdsterapitraditionen diskuteres efterfølgende fordele, ulemper og mulige problemstillinger ved integrationen af østlig filosofi i...
Buddhist Studies Review
July 8, 2011
Lee Su-kyung
This article gives an overview of Buddhist-oriented meditation techniques that were integrated with art projects for four and five year old kindergarten children at Dong Guk Kindergarten, Gyeongju City, South Korea. The article assesses the effect of this program on the creatvitiy levels of the children.
Buddhist Studies Review
July 8, 2011
R. Will Burnett
61 citations
This paper explores the adult mindfulness landscape, secular and Buddhist, in order to inform an approach to the teaching of mindfulness in secondary schools. The Introduction explains the background to the project and the significant overlap between secular and Buddhist practices. I explain what mindfulness is and highlight a number of important practical differences between the teaching of...
Religion Compass
July 1, 2011
Roger R. Jackson
7 citations
Abstract Mahāmudrā, usually translated as ‘the great seal’, is a vital term in the tantric traditions of Buddhist India and most schools of Tibetan Buddhism. In early Indian Buddhist tantras, it refers primarily to a hand‐gesture ( mudrā ) accompanying visualization meditation. In the later and more esoteric Indian Mahāyoga and Yoginī tantras, it denotes, inter alia , one of a sequence of...
中華佛學學報
July 1, 2011
Giuliana Martini
2 citations
This article is a study of loving kindness meditation as presented in the third chapter of the Khotanese Book of Zambasta in the light of its Chinese parallel, the Da fangguang fo huayan jing xiuci fen 大方廣佛華嚴經修慈分 (T 306), a Buddhavatamsaka (Fo huayan 佛華嚴) work. Chapter three is first assessed in relationship to the structure and content of the Book of Zambasta. It is then analyzed in terms of...
Mental Health, Religion & Culture
June 27, 2011
Heather A. Mastrianno
3 citations
The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of Zen meditation on security and satisfaction in monogamous relationships. Levels of security and satisfaction as described by interpersonal theorist Harry Stack Sullivan, as well as meditation experience, were analysed via survey data. Data were collected via the Internet from 405 men and women who were 18 years of age or older and had...
Archives of Psychiatric Nursing
June 2011
Somporn Rungreangkulkij, Wiwat Wongtakee, Sawitta Thongyot
The objective of this study was to assess the effect of Buddhist group therapy on patients with type 2 diabetes who had depressive symptoms. A quasi-experimental design study using a control group with matching technique was conducted. After informed consent was obtained, the "Nine questions for assessing depressive disorder symptom" (Isan language) was used to determine the patient's...
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
June 1, 2011
Zhuo Chen, Ralph W. Hood Jr., Lijun Yang et al.
63 citations
In the study of mysticism the debate has centered on whether a universal experiential core exists regardless of religious interpretation. The current investigation combines Jamesian empiricist and social constructivist perspectives to argue that stable experiential facets load variously on factors to construct local interpretations. Local interpretations reflect a family resemblance—a mystical...
Contemporary Buddhism
May 1, 2011
Edel Maex
70 citations
Jon Kabat-Zinn's Full Catastrophe Living skilfully succeeded in translating traditional Buddhist concepts in modern everyday language so as to make them accessible to the West. It was a stroke of genius to take mindfulness training out of the Buddhist context, but the risk might be that, instead of opening a door to the Dharma (the Buddhist teaching), it might also close a door leading to the...
May 1, 2011
In the wide range of Buddhist meditation and spirituality a very special place is held by the practice of calling on the name of Amitabha, or in Japanese Amida Buddha, using the simplest of formulas, the nenbutsu. Japanese masters such as Honen, Shinran and others made this the core of a profound spiritual experience which has fascinated numberless followers ever since. The deeper meaning of...
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
Melanie Fennell, Zindel V. Segal
31 citations
AbstractMindfulness-based cognitive therapy creates an unlikely partnership, between the ancient tradition of mindfulness meditation rooted in Buddhist thought, and the much more recent and essentially western tradition of cognitive and clinical science. This article investigates points of congruence and difference between the two traditions and concludes that, despite first appearances, this...
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...
International Journal of Psychophysiology
May 1, 2011
Xinjun Yu, Masaki Fumoto, Yasushi Nakatani et al.
To gain insight into the neurophysiological mechanisms involved in Zen meditation, we evaluated the effects of focused attention (FA) on breathing movements in the lower abdomen (Tanden) in novices. We investigated hemodynamic changes in the prefrontal cortex (PFC), an attention-related brain region, using 24-channel near-infrared spectroscopy during a 20-minute session of FA on Tanden...
Philosophia
March 14, 2011
David Woodruff Smith
6 citations
Pike’s phenomenology of mystical experiences articulates sharply where theological content may enter the structure of Christian mystics’ experiences (as characterized in their own words). Here we look to Buddhist (and other) accounts of “pure” or “nibbanic” consciousness attained in experiences of deep meditation. A contemporary “modal” model of inner awareness is considered whereby a form of...
2011
Susan Wong Po-shan
This doctrinal study demonstrates in what way the ‘Universal Applicability’ of Buddha Dhamma can be reflected in the intervention process in view of the contemporary situation of the Buddhist Mindfulness being integrated as a psychotherapeutic technique. In past few decades, the Western psychotherapists recognize Mindfulness as ‘the heart of Buddhist meditation’ and apply it as an impartial...
2011
James Robson
The term medium or translates the Chinese term, which has often been - problematically, in most cases - rendered as shaman. Anthropologists have tried provide some analytic clarity a cluster of terms used label similar involving the descent of a or deity into a host. Raymond Firth understands spirit possession as designating phenomena of abnormal behavior which are interpreted by other members...