Contemporary Buddhism
July 3, 2018
Richard E. Whitehead, Glen William Bates, Brad Elphinstone
18 citations
The Buddhist concept of nonattachment refers to a flexible engagement with experience without fixation on achieving specified outcomes. The primary focus of this study was to qualitatively examine how nonattachment and attachment are experienced in individuals identified as having very high and low levels of nonattachment. Specifically, we examined individuals’ descriptions of how their levels...
American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis
July 1, 2018
Jon K. Amundson, Marc W Ross, Debra Campbell
While much has been made of the value of Buddhist mindfulness in clinical treatment, little attention has been given over to its parallels, if not antecedents in Hindu philosophy. Buddhist traditions in the vipassana, ch'an and zen tradition, and the practices associated, find their roots in Advaita philosophy and practice. This article looks at the useful/effective nature of Advaita and its...
Setting Out on the Great Way: Essays on Early Mahāyāna Buddhism
June 30, 2018
Douglas Osto
This chapter argues that literary accounts of visions in some Mahāyāna sources (often referred to as samādhis) possess characteristics that are strikingly similar to reports of actually visionary experiences that individuals have undergone while their psychologies and physiologies were profoundly altered in some way. Moreover, some of the methods used to induce actual visions also parallel...
Journal of Psychiatrists Association of Nepal
June 28, 2018
Samjhana Thapaliya, K. D. Upadhyaya, Rohan Borschmann et al.
9 citations
Introduction: Mindfulness based interventions (MBIs) have emerged as effective interventions for various psychiatric conditions including depression and anxiety. Asia being home to Buddhist tradition, it will be interesting to explore the trend and efficacy of MBIs in Asian population in Asian settings. The aim of this study is to perform a systematic review of mindfulness based interventions...
June 27, 2018
Hayley Saul
This chapter seeks to resource Anthropocene debates through the transversal conversations with the Dharma, tackling alternative modes of thinking–being about material causality, material agency, the morality of artefacts and corporeality. It also seeks the experiences of the lady-lama Alexandra David-Neel (ADN) as she encountered the various and multiple aspects of the mortal frontier to...
Oxford Scholarship Online
June 21, 2018
J. Jørgensen
This chapter identifies and highlights aspects of Buddhist thought that Zhu Xi appropriated and adapted to bolster and develop his philosophy of mind. The author argues that even though Zhu Xi repudiated the Buddhism he had been trained in as a youth, he continued to mirror many Buddhist doctrines as he responded to agendas already well-established in Buddhist circles. The chapter’s focus is...
Buddhist Studies Review
June 20, 2018
A. Amaro
This article draws on the teachings of the Pali Canon and the contemporary lineages that are guided by its principles. In particular, reference is made to the author’s mentors in the Thai Forest Tradition. It explores the respective roles of goal-directed effort and contentment in the process of meditative training, and skilful and unskilful variations on these. Effort is needed, but can be...
June 14, 2018
Heesoon Bai
In this paper, a case is made that Buddhism is a system of education that is designed to transition humanity from egoic consciousness to post-egoic consciousness, which is also known as enlightenment. It is further argued that global world peace cannot be had if such transition is not made. Toward this transition, Buddhism is seen as making an essential contribution by providing us with...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
June 11, 2018
Elisa H. Kozasa, Joana B Balardin, João R. Sato et al.
Meditation as a cognitive enhancement technique is of growing interest in the field of health and research on brain function. The Stroop Word-Color Task (SWCT) has been adapted for neuroimaging studies as an interesting paradigm for the understanding of cognitive control mechanisms. Performance in the SWCT requires both attention and impulse control, which is trained in meditation practices. We...
Review of Korean Studies
June 1, 2018
Tommy Tran
What are the implications of a Starbucks bag tied on a tree as an offering to village gods or a Buddhist chant intoned in place of a shamanic invocation? This article re-considers the cultural meanings of practical material changes in Jeju shamanism in relation to its rapid urbanization since the early 2000s. Though often romanticized as an idyllic rural paradise or a bastion of shamanic...