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...
International Journal of Transformative Multidisciplinary Studies
September 1, 2026
S. B. D. C. Ratnayake
Modern organizations are increasingly confronted with issues surrounding ethical choices, employee welfare, accountable leadership, stakeholder interactions, and unpredictability. These advancements have sparked interest in management viewpoints that go beyond just efficiency and financial outcomes. Buddhist philosophy has garnered interest in this regard for its focus on ethical behavior,...
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...
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
preprint
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
preprint
A companion paper argued that consciousness science makes explanatory claims of five distinguishable strengths, and that the strongest—why physical organization is accompanied by experience—remains open. This paper asks a prior question: what is referred to when Buddhist sources speak of consciousness? The answer is not one thing. Early Buddhist analysis treats viññāṇa as constitutively...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 25, 2026
David (daoud) Matta
preprint
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,...
Frontiers in Psychology
August 24, 2026
Jian-Nor Shih
The rapid growth of AI companionship has raised urgent questions about the psychological mechanisms underlying human-AI relationships. This paper investigates why and how users construct and become entrenched in relationships with AI. Drawing on the Consciousness-Only school of Buddhist psychology, this paper applies the three-natures framework and eight-consciousnesses model. According to this...
Social Science Review
August 23, 2026
Rahima Akhter, Niloy Roy
In this era of conflicts and humanitarian crises, searching for a sustainable way to build peace has become a pressing need. This article analyses the Buddhist teachings for global conflict resolution. This study examines how the Buddhist principles of ethics, especially nonviolence (ahiṁsā), compassion (karuṇā), mindfulness (sati), and moral leadership (dhammarāja-dhamma), can be applied to...
Research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
August 22, 2026
This paper examines the concepts of interbeing, mindfulness, and compassion in the teachings of Thích Nhất Hạnh, with particular emphasis on their relevance to student well-being in contemporary educational contexts. Drawing upon the framework of Engaged Buddhism, the study adopts a qualitative textual and thematic approach to analyse selected writings and teachings of Thích Nhất Hạnh. The...
International Journal of Education and Humanities
August 16, 2026
Wei Hu
The intellectual grasp of impermanence does not necessarily bring about a sense of peace in life and spirit, and thus a psychological and spiritual vacuum occurs. Using the idea of Emptiness (Śūnyatā) in Buddhist philosophy, Husserl's and Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological theories were combined to examine the origin and form of this gap in this paper. Although people today are aware of the...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
August 15, 2026
Shyam Vishal, Sharma Anita
preprint
The present paper undertakes a systematic and scholarly examination of psychological thought embedded within four major Eastern philosophical and spiritual systems: the Bhagavad Gita, Buddhism (with particular emphasis on meditation & mental purification), Sufism (the mystical tradition of Islam), and Integral Yoga (as systematised by Sri Aurobindo & further developed by Mirra Alfassa, aka the...
International Journal of Philosophy and Theology
August 13, 2026
Hsin-Yuan Liu, Hsuan-Pin Chen
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This paper addresses the contemporary crisis of existential vacuum by examining how death anxiety may be reinterpreted through meaning-centered contemplation. Drawing on Ken Wilber’s Three Eyes of Knowing, the study brings Viktor Frankl’s logotherapy, transpersonal psychology, Buddhist Nianfo practice, and selected insights from cognitive neuroscience into philosophical dialogue. Nianfo is...
Journal of Education Research
August 7, 2026
Vita Ayu Retna Adyanti, Julia Surya, Budi Utomo
Penelitian ini bertujuan menganalisis pengaruh mindfulness dan self-efficacy terhadap kesehatan mental dalam konteks praktik meditasi pada remaja di Vihara Buddhayana Dharmawira Centre Surabaya. Penelitian menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif dengan desain ex post facto. Sampel berjumlah 50 responden yang dipilih melalui teknik sampling jenuh. Data dikumpulkan menggunakan kuesioner dan dianalisis...
Preprints.org
August 7, 2026
preprint
Mindfulness Between Tradition and Innovation: From Buddhist Psychology to Evidence-Based Intervention
Scientific Reports
July 29, 2026
Ekaterina Mikhaylets, Alexandra Razorenova, Е.к. Карелина et al.
Meditation offers a naturalistic paradigm for studying introspection, yet the neural dynamics of advanced tantric practices remain largely unexplored. Buddhist Highest Yoga Tantra (BHYT) comprises a sequence of eight dissolution stages culminating in the “clear light” state. We recorded EEG during eyes-closed BHYT meditation performed in monasteries and hermitages (51 sessions from 36 male...
Religions
July 28, 2026
Karen O’Brien-Kop
This paper analyses the ‘grammar’, or rules, of meditation practice in the c. 5th-century Qizil Yoga Manual (QYM). The QYM was found in Kucha, a significant location in the Silk Road trade network. Meditation in this text means visual recollection, and the practices are largely structured around Buddhist Sarvāstivāda sequences with some hints of Mahāyāna or Tantric themes). As with certain...