May 22, 2023
Ming Dong Gu
Chapter 2 addresses the consensus on Chan as a specimen of Oriental mysticism. It begins with a review of the debate between Suzuki and Hu Shi over whether Chan enlightenment can be rationally understood by human intellect and reason. By examining the major methods of Chan cultivation for attaining enlightenment and accounts of testimony by Chan masters and practitioners in history, it argues...
Journal of Applied Humanities Studies
May 19, 2023
Visal Saipetch
This academic article aims to study the concepts and principles of mental health according to Buddhist teachings through comprehensive analysis of the Tripitaka, commentaries, and related academic works. The study employs a qualitative research methodology, examining Buddhist mental health frameworks and their integration with contemporary psychological approaches. The research finds that...
Performance Research
May 19, 2023
Janelle Reinelt
Chan tea practice is a Chinese Buddhist practice (Zen in Japanese and English) that stresses the value of simple utensils, humble spaces and anti-performative values such as avoidance of self-consciousness, display or theatrical effects. Since 2019 I have been practicing under the guidance of a Chinese monk, VK, within a group of sangha members from a local Buddhist priory. In this essay, I...
Russian Law Journal
May 11, 2023
Phra Chanya Jaruthammo Et Al.
1 citation
The objectives of this research were: 1) to study Buddhist mental well-being; 2) to study the Buddhist mental well-being of the elderly in Ban Nong Hin community, Khok Ko sub-district, Mueang Maha Sarakham District, Maha Sarakham Province; 3) to study the Buddhist mental well-being promotion of the elderly in Ban Nong Hin community. This study was carried out by means of qualitative research by...
The Journal of Humanities and Social sciences 21
April 30, 2023
Juenghee Lee
연구 목적: 본 연구는 현대인의 바쁜 삶 속에 잃어가는 인성과 사회적 이타성 형성을 위하여 불교의 육바라밀 선 사상을 접목한 오색관상 차 명상 프로그램을 개발하고 이를 일상생활에 적용, 사라져가는 인성을 되살리고자 하는데 그 목적이 있다.연구 방법: (사)한국차문화협회전남지부 사범 교육생 16명과 금용사 요가 단원 16명을 대상으로 오색관상 차 명상 프로그램을 체험하게 한 후 다담(茶談)과 설문 조사 결과를 교육의 효과성을 검증하기 위해 SPSS 21 프로그램을 활용하여 자료를 분석하였다.연구내용: 동양의 오방색의 원리를 활용하여 오색찻잔 속에 불교의 육바라밀 수행관을 담았다. 이 프로그램을 통하여 마음의 고요함과 지혜를 증강 시키는 습관으로 행동을 수정하는 것이다.결론 및 제언: 실험자들이 자신의...
Cultural Studies of Science Education
April 28, 2023
Yau Yan Wong, Chatree Faikhamta
This is a hermeneutic phenomenological study that describes and interprets Wong's, the first author lived experience in the borderlands of science and Buddhist mindfulness as a science education doctoral student in Thailand. I explore my experiences in learning with multiple mindfulness teachers, including Thich Nhat Hanh from Buddhist traditions. and Additionally, I explore the affordances of...
Religious Studies
April 17, 2023
Davey K. Tomlinson
Abstract This article explores the structure of cultivated religious experience. For the Buddhist philosopher Jñānaśrīmitra (c. 980–1040), the religious experience of the Buddhist yogin (yogipratyakṣa) is not spontaneous or sporadic but must be intentionally and rationally cultivated. I argue that Jñānaśrīmitra's picture parallels certain contemporary constructivist accounts of religious...
Mindfulness
April 11, 2023
Shaun Gallagher, Antonino Raffone, Aviva Berkovich-Ohana et al.
49 citations
Abstract In this paper, we address core insights from Buddhist psychology about mind-body phenomena and the self, and we relate such insights to the notion of the self-pattern developed in the pattern theory of self. We emphasize the dynamic, temporal and enactive characteristics of the self-pattern, consistent with the core Buddhist notion of non-self. Although there is no one-to-one mapping...
Frontiers in Psychology
March 9, 2023
Shao-Hsuan Shaun Ho, Yoshio Nakamura, James E. Swain
3 citations
Conflicts are increasingly intensified among the members of the community, making it almost impossible to extend compassion—defined as a wish to relieve others from suffering—from one side to the other, especially when both sides believe that “life is a battle of us the good vs. them the evil.” Is compassion even relevant to conflicts? The answer depends on how a conflict is framed in one's...
Rocky Mountain review/The Rocky Mountain review
March 1, 2023
Peter B. Olson
Reviewed by: Enlightened Individualism: Buddhism and Hinduism in American Literature from the Beats to the Present by Kyle Gorton-Gundling Peter B. Olson Kyle Gorton-Gundling. Enlightened Individualism: Buddhism and Hinduism in American Literature from the Beats to the Present. The Ohio State UP, 2019. 217p. A recent entry into the subfield of transnational American studies, Enlightened...