Subhasita: Journal of Buddhist and Religious Studies
April 23, 2025
Johannes Bronkhorst
This research aims to examine the integration of spiritual techniques in the traditions of Buddhism and Yoga with the concept of memory reconsolidation in psychology and neuroscience. The main aim of this research is to show that these spiritual techniques are not only of mystical or religious value, but also serve as psychological mechanisms for emotional and cognitive transformation that are...
Contemporary Buddhism
April 22, 2025
Nicholas K. Canby, Jared R. Lindahl, David J. Cooper et al.
1 citation
Although meditation is often treated as an individual practice, meditation teachers can play an important role. Drawing on the mixed-methods dataset of the Varieties of Contemplative Experience project, this paper examines the role of meditation teachers and their impacts on Western practitioners who are navigating meditation-related challenges. Quantitative and qualitative results from 68...
Poornaprajna International Journal of Philosophy & Languages
April 21, 2025
Shubhrajyotsna Aithal, Ramanathan Srinivasan
Purpose: The concepts of Moksha (liberation) in Upanishadic thought and Nirvana in Buddhism represent the ultimate spiritual goals in Hinduism and Buddhism, respectively. While both traditions emphasize the cessation of suffering and transcendence of worldly existence, their metaphysical foundations, epistemological approaches, and soteriological frameworks differ significantly. This paper...
Religions
April 14, 2025
Joanna Różycka‐Tran, Khanh Huu Truong, Klaudia T. Bochniarz et al.
2 citations
(1) Background: Meditation, originally stemming from the Buddhist tradition, has been the subject of extensive psychological research, with a growing body of literature exploring its effects on various mental and physical health aspects. (2) Methods: This article consists of two studies conducted in two Vietnamese Buddhist Monasteries. Study 1 investigated brain activity during Zen meditation...
Studies in Chinese Religions
April 3, 2025
Brianna K. Morseth
ABSTRACT Panoramic perspectives interfuse multiple views on the same scene, out of which emerges a vision none held alone. Such synergistic dynamics are reflected in practices of visualization, on which Huayan and Pure Land Buddhism offer particularly illuminating perspectives. Their canonical accounts, including the Avataṃsaka Sūtra and Amitāyus Contemplation Sūtra, find multimedia parallels...
The Society Of Korean Oral Literature
March 31, 2025
Joonseob Yoon
Understanding the stories of different Seo-in told in Senggut in its entirety is the aim of this article. The creation myth, the god of production myth, and the flood myth—the beginning, middle, and end of Senggut—are told in Seoka Seoin, Cheonyeon Jangjaebi, and Samjeseok. The purpose of these stories is to spread Buddhism, presenting that when you no longer believe in Buddhism, a new world...
Religions
March 26, 2025
Federico Divino
This paper represents an attempt to investigate some aspects of Vedic religiosity, as represented in the R̥gveda (R̥V), in comparison with the Pāli Canon on the themes of cognition, contemplative practice, and the theory of knowledge. It aims to argue that the metaphors in R̥V, for instance, fire, the chariot, the yoke, light, and the ocean, bear proto-Buddhist ideas that have influenced...
American Journal of Psychoanalysis
March 1, 2025
Seiso Paul Cooper
The author makes a distinction between the expressive Soto Zen practice of shikantaza (just sitting, only sitting) that was promulgated by Eihei Dōgen, (1200-1253) the founder of the Soto Zen Buddhist school in Japan and various instrumental/facilitative and "quietist" contemplative practices. Different contemplative practices reflect and express the underlying assumptions, guiding principles...
Korean Institute for Buddhist Studies
February 28, 2025
Lan-Bang Jung
Amanasikāra, the opposite of manasikāra (mentation, attention), is a significant concept in the history of the development of Buddhist practices. This paper primarily focuses on a concise work titled Amanasikārādhāra (the locus of non-mentation) composed by Advayavajra (also known as Matreyanātha or Maitrīpa in Tibet), who flourished in the 11th century. This text offers valuable insights into...
Philosophy East and West
February 1, 2025
John Spackman
This paper examines two accounts of how Buddhist meditative practice has been seen as cultivating nonconceptual mental states. The first, exemplified in recent work by Evan Thompson, drawing on Dharmakīrti, views the representational contents of certain meditative states as nonconceptual. The second, found in Yogācāra texts like the Mahāyānasaṃgraha, suggests that meditation cultivates a type...