Journal of Cognitive Historiography
December 24, 2022
Jared R. Lindahl, Willoughby B. Britton, David J Cooper
7 citations
This article explores the extent to which cognitive historiography can be employed to comment on debates concerning the interpretation of meditative experiences in select Buddhist texts. In particular, this article considers references to meditation-related fear and other associated emotional, perceptual, and cognitive changes. Qualitative data from Western Buddhist meditation practitioners and...
Religions
December 23, 2022
Tony Scott
1 citation
The mid-twentieth century was celebrated in Theravāda civilizations as the halfway point in the five-thousand-year history of the Buddha’s dispensation, the sāsana. Around this time in Burma, fierce debates arose concerning the re-establishment of the extinct order of Theravāda nuns. While women were understood as having a crucial role in supporting and maintaining the sāsana, without a...
Business Perspectives and Research
December 7, 2022
Himanshu Dhaka, Rajen K. Gupta, Tanuja Sharma
This study aims to examine how Buddhist mindfulness meditation influences the ethical temperament of its practitioner at the workplace. By adopting a constructivist grounded theory approach, we found six elements of Buddhist mindfulness meditation and three mechanisms underlying the ethical temperament of the participants at the workplace. Our findings suggest that Buddhist mindfulness...
Journal of Islamic and Muslim Studies
December 1, 2022
Elif Emirahmetoğlu
Abstract:This article offers a comparative analysis of the transformation of the human self in Sufism and Mahāyāna Buddhism focusing particularly on the nature and role of religious practice in human transformation. It first outlines the Qur’ānic concept of innate human nature (fiṭra) and the Sufi practice of invocation of God (dhikr, lit. “remembrance”), and explores how the practice of dhikr...
International Journal of Latin American Religions
December 1, 2022
Ismael Eduardo Apud Peláez, Victor E. C. Ortuño, Mari Rose Reimondo Silva et al.
6 citations
The impact of spirituality on health, personality and anxiety is a common topic of research in the psychology of religion. For the case of Buddhism, the relation between health and meditation has been extensively studied, while research of Buddhism and personality is not a common topic in the field. The current article aims to analyze whether Tibetan Buddhism, as a particular religious...
Journal of Humanities,Music and Dance
November 26, 2022
Dibya Ranjan Tripathy
This paper delves into the unique blend of spirituality and aesthetics in Bhima Bhoi’s bhajanas, highlighting the almost psychedelic qualities of his poetic language within the context of Mahima Dharma. Bhima Bhoi’s bhajanas are filled with vibrant imagery that pushes beyond the spiritual and cultural limits of his era, illustrating the core values of Mahima Dharma—such as monotheism,...
F1000Research
November 25, 2022
T. Honda
Background: Mindfulness meditation for chronic pain is popular globally, but evidence of its efficacy is limited. Moreover, there are no established methods on the objective evaluation of the effectiveness of interventions for chronic pain. In this study, a chronic low back pain patient was treated with traditional Japanese Buddhism meditation-integrated cognitive behavioral therapy and the...
Frontiers in Psychology
November 2, 2022
Li-Jie Du
OPINION article Front. Psychol., 02 November 2022Sec. Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology Volume 13 - 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1033021
Chinese Semiotic Studies
November 1, 2022
Li-He Huang, Huiyu Qu
Abstract Over its long period of development, Zen Buddhism in ancient China has adopted a unique method of enlightenment for the direct individual understanding of the Buddha-nature in the interaction between Zen masters and their disciples, instead of merely depending on written classics or oral teaching, which constitutes so-called “independence-from-words.” Communication between monks in Zen...
International Journal of Psychophysiology
November 1, 2022
Svyatoslav Medvedev, Julia Boytsova, Y A Bubeev et al.
Thousand-year-old Buddhist traditions have developed a wide range of methods for the subjective exploration of consciousness through meditation. Combining their subjective research with the possibilities of modern neuroscience can help us better understand the physiological mechanisms of consciousness. Therefore, we have been guided by specifically Buddhist explanations when studying the...