Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
August 1, 2009
Lobsang Rapgay, Alexander Bystrisky
168 citations
Among the modern versions of mindfulness, mindfulness based stress reduction (MBSR) has played the key role in introducing mindfulness practice to the field of psychology and medicine. In fact, the efforts to integrate mindfulness into psychology have resulted in further adaptation of MBSR into more secular and psychological forms as well as the creation of a number of mindfulness measures such...
July 10, 2009
Gregory Shushan, G. Flood
Foreword by Gavin Flood Acknowledgements Abbreviations of Primary Sources Introduction Part I 1. Comparison, Universalism, and the Rehabilitation of the Comparative 'Similar' 2. Early Civilizations, Contact, Diffusion, and Cultural Continuity 3. Near-Death Experience Part II 4. Old and Middle Kingdom Egypt 5. Sumerian and Old Babylonian Mesopotamia 6. Vedic India 7. Pre-Buddhist China 8....
June 24, 2009
A. Benedict, L. Mancini, M. Grodin
As a result of the recent resurgence of violence in the Tibetan Autonomous Region, the Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights has an increased patient demographic: Tibetan refugee monks. Diagnosed by their amchis (traditional healers) as having a srog-rLung (life-wind) imbalance and presenting with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), they struggle with their contemplative...
Educational Media Reviews Online
June 8, 2009
J. Schomberg
Distributed by Filmakers Library, 124 East 40th Street, New York, NY 10016; 202-808-4980Produced by ARTE FranceDirected by Delphine Morel2006, DVD, color, 52 min. This is a fascinating documentary of research done by neuroscientists affiliated with the Mind and Life Institute. The purpose of their research is to examine longtime practitioners of Tibetan Buddhist meditation. They use interviews...
Mindfulness and Social Work
June 1, 2009
Richard Potter
Abstract Spiritual paths are replete with techniques to help adherents let go of the dominating ‘‘monkey mind’’—the constantly active, evaluating, worrying, anticipating, remembering activity that is going on in our heads—and be open to the present moment and what it has to offer. The ‘‘monkey mind’’ is also the purposeless babbling that is always in the background in our minds. What we know...
Buddhist Philosophy
April 21, 2009
Peter Harvey
2 citations
Abstract Of the following three selections, the first two, the Anatta-lakkha a Sutta and a part of the Mahānidā na Sutta, are from the Theravādin Pali canonical collection of discourses attributed to the Buddha. The third is from a postcanonical Pali text, the Milindapañha. While they all contain points and arguments of philosophical relevance, they are not as such systematic philosophical...
Buddhist Philosophy
April 21, 2009
Jin Y Park
Abstract Pojo Chinul (1158–1210) is one of the most influential figures in Korean Zen Buddhism. Chinul’s Zen is characterized by huatou (or “a critical phrase”) meditation, a version of the encounter dialogue (Chin. gong’an; Kor. kongan; Jap. kō an) method. At the basis of Chinul’s huatou meditation, also known as Kanhua Zen, lies his philosophy of mind. By tracing Chinul’s account of mind, one...
Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
March 1, 2009
Chuan-Yi Liu, Ching-Chuan Wei, Pei-Chen Lo
In this article, we studied how meditation affects the characteristics of the cardiovascular system, mainly based on blood pressure waveforms (BPW). Four parameters derived from BPW include the rising slope (h(1)/t(1)), normalized height of T wave (h(3)/h(1)), normalized height of V(3) valley (h(4)/h(1)) and normalized height of D wave (h(5)/h(1)), where t(1) and h(i), i = 1, ... ,5 are...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
March 1, 2009
Frederick R Dannaway
8 citations
Many ancient cultures and religions engaged in various techniques and used various substances to instigate religious experience and to alter perception. These techniques of psycho-sexual drug yoga reached an unparalleled level of sophistication that arose and was often cloaked in practical terms of alchemy and metallurgy. The Vedic tradition describes this plant-based ritualism as soma, which...
Institutional Repositories DataBase
January 20, 2009
Andrei P. Samar
2 citations
The Nanai people belong to the Tungus-Manchurian language family. Their use of dogs in hunting and fishing activities has great importance in their traditional culture. Its economic role is well reflected through its images in their worldview, ceremonies, and folklore. Until the beginning of the twentieth century, the system of Nanai beliefs was represented by a synthesis of traditional views...