Jurnal Kajian & Reviu Jinarakkhita Jurnal Gerakan Semangat Buddhayana
October 30, 2025
Yusmiati Liau, Troi Dao Bi
This study examines the contribution of Buddhist ethics, particularly the Pañcasīla and the Five Mindfulness Trainings (FMT), as a moral and practical framework for addressing the global climate crisis. The research applies a literature study with a qualitative descriptive approach, analyzing Buddhist texts, academic works, and prior studies on mindfulness and ecology. The findings highlight...
October 30, 2025
Yoshiharu Nakagawa
Abstract Holistic education celebrates contemplative practices such as yoga, vipassanā meditation, Zen meditation, mantra, Tai chi, etc. Pioneers such as John P. Miller at the University of Toronto and Richard Brown at Naropa University advanced contemplative education. This chapter explores awareness (mindfulness) as a primary path of self-cultivation. Charles T. Tart, Arthur J. Deikman,...
Trames
October 30, 2025
W. G. Indunil Philip Shantha
Buddhist psychology and Japanese Naikan therapy have deep historical connections. However, there has been a lack of research in religions studies comparing Naikan with its original Buddhist background. Therefore, this paper explores the relationship between Buddhist psychology and Naikan therapy. Naikan is a kind of contemplative therapeutic practice that was developed by a Japanese Buddhist...
Implicit Religion
October 30, 2025
André Van der Braak
1 citation
Latour constructs a plurality of ontologies by distinguishing various modes of existence with their own type of existent. One of these modes of existence is religion, which involves invisible “beings of religion.” Latour criticizes both psychological and (onto)theological interpretations of such beings. He distinguishes between psychogenic beings that constitute the self, and beings of religion...
Ai & Society
October 28, 2025
Omer Chomski
2 citations
Abstract Meditation has been a cornerstone of Buddhism for millennia, yet its adoption in Western culture increasingly intertwines spirituality with digital technologies. Neuro-meditation devices, which employ neurofeedback and brain stimulation to enhance meditative states, are now promoted as tools that democratize meditation by flattening its learning curve and enabling real‐time progress...
Anthropology of Consciousness
October 28, 2025
B. Elijah Carter
ABSTRACT One barrier to mental health and a common focus of psychotherapy is the tendency to identify with relentless, often self‐critical thinking that searches for faults, becomes easily distracted, and pulls individuals away from the present moment. Identifying with such thinking distances people from each other, the external world, and important aspects of internal experiences that have...
Analítica
October 27, 2025
Richa Singh
This study investigates the role of Buddhist mindfulness techniques as foundational values in the emerging field of philosophical counselling. Bridging Eastern contemplative traditions and Western philosophical practice, the paper argues that mindfulness understood not merely as meditation but as active, value-oriented awareness; can significantly contribute to the goals of philosophical...
Contemporary Buddhism
October 24, 2025
Diane Denis
ABSTRACT This paper explores the evolving role of contemplative education within Buddhist Studies in the context of the contemporary “age of AI.” It advocates for the cultivation of image literacy at the academic level, arguing that as AI becomes the predominant compiler, producer, and distributor of information, it is imperative to reconsider the nature of cognition and its broader...
Frontiers in Psychology
October 24, 2025
Elizaveta Solomonova, Jared R. Lindahl, Ian Gold et al.
1 citation
Delusional ideation is characteristic of psychopathology (e.g., psychosis, bipolar disorder) and is also found among the general population. Contemporary case studies have documented delusional ideation as a feature of meditation-induced psychosis, and Buddhist literature on the side effects and adverse effects of meditation also includes discussion of transient experiences that could be...
International Journal of the Classical Tradition
October 23, 2025
Carlos Sánchez Pérez
Abstract This paper explores the reception of ancient theurgy in contemporary online esotericism, with a particular focus on its transformation into the practice known as meme magic. Theurgy, a ritual practice rooted in Late Antique Neoplatonism and the Chaldean Oracles, was traditionally understood as a means of invoking the divine through symbols. Over the centuries, its legacy has persisted...
medRxiv
October 22, 2025
Matthew A Aldridge, Nanda Cara, Alan Simpson et al.
preprint
Abstract Second-generation mindfulness-based interventions (SG-MBIs) extend typical mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) by grounding them in Buddhist epistemological and pedagogical frameworks and integrating additional Buddhist-derived practices. Systematic reviews show that MBIs can reduce burnout, distress, anxiety, depression and stress among university students—an issue of increasing...
Religions
October 21, 2025
J.S. Kim, Yuanfei Li, Fenggang Yang
This study examined the spatial distribution of shamanic practice in contemporary South Korea, focusing on its territorial relationship with institutional religions. Contrary to portrayals of shamanism as a rural remnant or as absorbed by Pentecostal Christianity, population-adjust maps and spatial models reveal substantial concentrations in urban and peri-urban districts. Drawing on a geocoded...
Humans
October 21, 2025
Federico Divino
With an emphasis on the adaptation and mediation of Buddhist meditation within Western societies, this study explores the transformative interaction of traditional contemplative practices and modern technologies. By means of an extensive ethnographic investigation carried out in multiple European locations, this study sheds light on the significant influence that digital devices—specifically,...
Psychiatry International
October 13, 2025
Felipe Montalva-Valenzuela, Eduardo Guzmán-Muñoz, Gérson Ferrari et al.
1 citation
Background: Physical activity is essential for good health and human well-being, yet one-third of adults worldwide fail to achieve the recommended weekly physical activity. Buddhist Walking Meditation (BWM), Walking Meditation (WM), or Mindful Walking (MW) is a mindfulness practice characterized by mind–body interaction, seeking to promote people’s well-being. Therefore, this systematic review...
The Journal of Somaesthetics
October 12, 2025
Kei Nagaoka
This study explores the embodied experience of prostration among Tibetan Buddhists through ethnographic research in the Eastern Himalayas. I extend somaesthetics theory by using a sensory ethnographic approach to analyze the intersubjective relations and bodily sensibility that intersect in the daily experience of prostration. By focusing on the interactions among their senses, aesthetics, and...
Religions
October 7, 2025
Hong Zeng, Shu Su
The Bardo Thodol (bar do thos grol), commonly known in the West as The Tibetan Book of the Dead, has traditionally served as a spiritual manual guiding consciousness through the postmortem bardo (bar do) states toward liberation or rebirth. While prior interpretations have framed the text in ritualistic, psychological, or mystical terms, this essay proposes an original and interdisciplinary...
Religions
October 3, 2025
Y. Li, Yi Zhang, Jing Wang
The educational philosophy of the Nuns’ Buddhist Academy at Pushou Monastery, Mount Wutai, is based on the principles of “Hua Yan as the foundation, precepts as the practice, and Pure Land as the destination.” This philosophy draws upon Buddhist scriptures, integrating descriptions of the Pure Land practice found in the Avatamsaka Sūtra and the Amitābha Sūtra. This approach translates the...
Schizophrenia Bulletin
October 1, 2025
Julia Cassaniti, Chaiyun Sakulsriprasert, T M Luhrmann
Background and hypothesis: Research has found that the content and valence of voices heard by persons with schizophrenia appear to be shaped by local culture. We interviewed twenty participants about their voices in Suan Prung Hospital in Chiang Mai, Thailand to see if, and how, there appeared to be such local influences. Study design: In an ethnographically driven and phenomenological study,...
October 1, 2025
R. Bluck
What is an unofficial Buddhist? Someone whose monastery is their living room! This book explores Buddhist-inspired teaching and practice for today’s secular world – but outside the monastic traditions of Buddhism. The Unofficial Buddhist seeks to find a middle way between ancient and modern worldviews, religious and secular approaches, and Asian and western cultural attitudes. Drawing on...
October 1, 2025
Nathan Jishin Michon
Combining esoteric Buddhist breathing techniques and visualisations, contemporary psychology and chaplaincy, and various world meditations, the meditative therapies used with clients of Japan's Ōshita Daien 大下大園 (1954–) and Takayama Seiei 高山誓英 (1948–) are case studies in entangled influences and modern adaptation. Ōshita Daien is a profoundly influential figure in the field of ‘spiritual care’...