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Religionswissenschaft October 18, 2018
In modern societies the functional differentiation of medicine and religion is the predominant paradigm. Contemporary therapeutic practices and concepts in healing systems, such as Transpersonal Psychology, Ayurveda, as well as Buddhist and Anthroposophic medicine, however, are shaped by medical as well as religious or spiritual elements. This book investigates configurations of the...
Journal of Happiness Studies October 9, 2018 Richard E. Whitehead, G. Bates, Brad Elphinstone et al.
The Buddhist construct of nonattachment is a related, yet distinct construct to mindfulness. Whereas mindfulness refers to an individual’s open, present-centred awareness of what is happening in their field of consciousness, nonattachment denotes an absence of attempts to control what is happening in their field of consciousness. The aim of the present research was to determine whether...
History of the Human Sciences October 1, 2018 Matthew Drage 6 citations
In this article I examine an important episode in the growth of ‘mindfulness’ as a biomedical modality in Britain: the formation and establishment of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) by John Teasdale and his colleagues Mark Williams and Zindel Segal. My study, focusing on Teasdale’s contribution, combines ethnographic, oral historical and archival research to understand how...
Journal of Religion and Health October 1, 2018 Miyuru Chandradasa, Chamara Wijesinghe, K A L A Kuruppuarachchi et al.
Near-death experiences (NDEs) are a wide range of experiences that occur in association with impending death. There are no published studies on NDEs in general hospital populations, and studies have been mainly conducted on critically ill patients. We assessed the prevalence of NDEs and its associations in a multi-religious population in a general hospital in Sri Lanka. A randomised sample of...
Open Theology October 1, 2018 Bermant Gordon
Dennis Hirota is a modern master of Shin Buddhism who for several decades has explicated the role of natural language in fostering Buddhist awakening. At the core of his oeuvre is the claim that Shin Buddhism’s founder, Shinran Shonin (1173-1263), accepted the earlier Mahayana teaching of nondual awareness as a necessary condition for awakening. Shinran’s unique contribution was to insist that...
Ratio September 28, 2018 Amber D. Carpenter 4 citations
Abstract Buddhist ethics generally favour attention over action, and mental cultivation as the means of ethical transformation. Buddhaghosa’s treatment ofsamādhi– meditation – in thePath of Purification(Visuddhimagga) exemplifies this view that practices of attention are morally transforming. His detailed discussion of which forms of attentional exercises are transformative to whom reveal that...
Argument September 26, 2018 Krzysztof Jakubczak
Seeing of emptiness and mystical experience — the case of Madhyamaka: The problem of Buddhist religiosity is one of the most classic problems of Buddhist studies. A particular version of this issue is the search for mystical experience in Buddhism. This is due to the conviction that mystical experience is the essence of religious experience itself. The discovery of such an alleged experience...
Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice September 25, 2018 Valerie Bonnardel, Terry Biddington, Brandon May et al.
Endorsing the role of Universities as caregiving organisations and following an initial report on contemplative practices (CP) in Higher Education by the Institute of Theological Partnerships (2016) and the Mindful Nation UK (2015), a Contemplative Pedagogy Working Group (CPWG) was convened to explore the possibilities to implement contemplative pedagogy and practices at the University. CP such...
Oxford Scholarship Online September 20, 2018 C. Ram-Prasad
This chapter follows the process by which a highly detailed account of the human being as bodily being emerges through a series of contemplative practices described in the fifth century by Buddhaghosa in The Path of Purification, a Theravada Buddhist manual. In the first three practices studied, meditation practices are described that disrupt intuitions about the stability of subject and...
September 14, 2018 Yoshiharu Nakagawa 1 citation
[Abstract: This chapter discusses perennial philosophy as a worldview of holistic education. In particular, this chapter addresses Toshihiko Izutsu’s reconstruction of Eastern philosophy and then introduces the idea of five dimensions of reality that integrates Eastern thoughts, such as Vedanta, Buddhism, and Taoism into the current discussion of holistic education. Since Eastern perspectives...