Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 8, 2026
Alessandro Mahony
preprint
I mantra costituiscono una delle tecnologie contemplative più antiche e diffuse nellastoria umana, presenti in tradizioni diverse come l’Advaita Vedanta, il BuddhismoVajrayana e il Buddhismo Theravada. Il presente articolo esamina tre mantra —So Ham, Om Ah Hum e Buddho — attraverso una prospettiva interdisciplinare cheintegra fonti filosofiche tradizionali, studi neurofisiologici e ricerca...
'Ilu. Revista de Ciencias de las Religiones
October 8, 2026
Álvaro Trigo Maldonado
This article analyzes the intersection between Buddhism and artificial intelligence through a reading of Redimeidu bosang (2004) by Park Seonghwan, a Korean science fiction story in which a robot attains enlightenment in a Buddhist temple. Beyond understanding technology as a tool within religious practice, the study explores how speculative fiction reconfigures the conceptual boundaries...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 8, 2026
Alessandro Mahony
preprint
Mantras constitute one of the oldest and most widespread contemplative technologies inhuman history, present in traditions as diverse as Advaita Vedanta, Vajrayana Buddhism,and Theravada Buddhism. This article examines three mantras — So Ham, Om AhHum, and Buddho — through an interdisciplinary perspective that integrates traditionalphilosophical sources, neurophysiological studies, and clinical...
Routledge eBooks
October 7, 2026
Huiling Lim
Chapter 5 synthesizes the ethical, psychological and contemplative dimensions explored throughout the book, offering a critical evaluation of Thích Nhất Hạnh&s;s contribution to modern Buddhism. It reflects on the coherence and limits of his project, addressing tensions between accessibility and depth, tradition and adaptation and individual practice and collective responsibility. The chapter...
Routledge eBooks
October 7, 2026
Huiling Lim
Chapter 4 explores how Thích Nhất Hạnh translates insight into lived practice through meditation, Zen sensibility, and mindful engagement with everyday activities. Grounded in foundational suttas—including the Ānāpānasati, Satipaṭṭhāna, Bhaddekaratta, and Alagaddupama Suttas—the chapter presents meditation as a holistic discipline of stopping, looking deeply, and ethical responsiveness. It...
Open Access at Essex
October 7, 2026
Rohan J Naidoo
This research addresses the central complex of how the relationship between the sacred and sexual is problematised and plays out over the course of individuation. Jung articulated it as core to his relationship with Freud breaking down, describing a split between the secular (which becomes sexualised) and the spiritual (which becomes desexualised). Such a division can be understood, via a...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 5, 2026
Thomas Blottenberger
preprint
Some of the most familiar stories in a human life look, up close, like separate problems: the raise you were sure would finally feel like enough, which a few weeks in has quietly become the number you now have to beat; the hours spent going back over your childhood trying to locate the thing that explains why you are the way you are; the one sharp moment with your kid that lands as a verdict on...
October 5, 2026
David Stephen Calonne
Abstract Jazz, Counterculture, and the Sacred seeks to explore the works and lives of the Black jazz composers Sun Ra, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Don Cherry, Alice Coltrane, Anthony Braxton, and Nicole Mitchell in relation to their fascination with a variety of spiritual traditions. The purpose of the book is to compare the ways these musicians employed Buddhism, Hinduism,...
PsyArXiv
October 3, 2026
Rebekah Senānāyaka
preprint
Ninety percent of human societies practise institutionalised alterations of consciousness. Across independent traditions, communities that develop governed protocols for sustained engagement with non-human organisms produce practitioners whose hybrid consciousness becomes the basis of social authority. Drawing on 27 months of apprenticeship-based fieldwork in the Peruvian and Colombian Amazon...
International Journal of Contemporary Humanities
October 1, 2026
Charitha Dissanayake
As the ecological crisis intensifies, with 45% of flowering plants facing extinction, innovative approaches integrating spiritual practice and environmental conservation are urgently needed. This paper examines the 'Metta Garden' concept developed in Sri Lanka, which synthesizes Buddhist principles of lovingkindness (metta) and interdependence (paṭicca samuppāda) with therapeutic horticulture...