Philosophy East and West
October 1, 2026
WooHyun Jung
One familiar gesture pairs the Buddhist doctrine of momentariness (kṣaṇikavāda) with Husserl’s phenomenology of internal time-consciousness; another declares the two incompatible because Husserl rejects the punctual now-point the kṣaṇa affirms. Both fail. Husserl retains the momentary phase—Hua X §39 speaks of the “primal sensation” and the “actual momentary phase” of the flow—while denying...
Research Portal
October 1, 2026
Tianpeng Yao
This study explores how the audiovisual language of cinema can embody the abstract aesthetics of Zen through a series of experimental creative practices and the production of a documentary film, combined with analyses of previous Zen-themed films and related literature. Adopting a practice-as-research methodology, the study comprises multiple audiovisual experiments inspired by Zen aesthetics,...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 30, 2026
Maurício Hondaku
preprint
English. This article revises the concept of the "Fourth Turning of the Wheel of Dharma", introduced by the author in an earlier version (March 2026), as a philosophical investigation of how the mind operates in technically mediated environments, and explicitly lowers the status of the claim: from a possible historical fourth turning to a figure of reading and a call to doctrinal work, with no...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 30, 2026
Maurício Hondaku
preprint
English. This article revises the concept of the "Fourth Turning of the Wheel of Dharma", introduced by the author in an earlier version (March 2026), as a philosophical investigation of how the mind operates in technically mediated environments, and explicitly lowers the status of the claim: from a possible historical fourth turning to a figure of reading and a call to doctrinal work, with no...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 27, 2026
Thon Ly, Miss Aquarius
preprint
A pre-registered formalization of the Abhidhammattha-saṅgaha's combination rules, collated against the Chaṭṭha Saṅgāyana, with the Dhammasaṅgaṇī list collated against its commentary and against the Cambodian edition The Theravāda Abhidhamma classifies consciousness into 89 types (121 when the supramundane types are reckoned by jhāna). It also states, factor by factor and type by type, which of...
Research Square
September 25, 2026
Jimpei Hitsuwari, Makiko Kamikawaji, Toryo Ito
preprint
Abstract Amulets are ubiquitous across cultures. However, psychological research on amulets has concentrated on the effects of owning and using them, whereas the experience of making one’s own amulet remains largely unexplored. This research takes a descriptive and exploratory approach to examine pre–post shifts in psychological states surrounding Yuwai-mamori, an approximately 15-minute...
Frontiers in Psychology
September 25, 2026
Ping Guo, Wei Fan
Can decades of Zen meditation leave measurable traces in the practitioner’s natural language? Long-term contemplative practice is widely understood to reshape emotion regulation, self-referential processing, and perceptual engagement, yet empirical research on these transformations has been fundamentally constrained by two limitations: an observation window of weeks to months at most, and an...
Journal of International Buddhist Studies
September 23, 2026
Yin Li, Asst. Prof. Dr. Phramaha Nantakorn Piyabhani, Asst. Prof. Dr. Phramaha Anon Anando
This qualitative case study examines Buddhist spiritual care for terminal cancer patients through the case of Wat Kham Pramong in Sakon Nakhon Province, Thailand. It addresses three objectives: to examine how the temple responds to patients’ spiritual needs, to identify the Buddhist teachings and practices relevant to those needs, and to assess the approach’s qualitative impact in terminal...
Warwick Research Archive Portal
September 15, 2026
Erol Čopelj
This work develops a phenomenological account of mindfulness, and related phenomena. It is divided into two main parts. The aim of part one is to articulate a pre-phenomenological sketch of mindfulness (and related phenomena) by (1) drawing on passages from some of the classic works of Western literature and everyday life, (2) through an interpretation of the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta and (3) by the...
Scientific Reports
September 15, 2026
Sakshi Chauhan, Sahil Sankhyan, Kirti Tripathi et al.
Zen meditation has been widely recognized for its psychological and physiological benefits; however, the differential impacts of meditation experience on psychophysiological biomarkers remain underexplored. This study bridges a crucial gap by investigating how Zen meditation influences anxiety, sleep quality, and EEG-derived brain activity in novice and experienced meditators. Over three days,...