Dance, Movement & Spiritualities
July 1, 2018
Aska Sakuta
Abstract This article explores the idea of a deeply embodied consciousness during movement, which has become one of the most intensely discussed topics in terms of the phenomenology and spirituality of dance and somatic practices. The strive towards an embodied state of consciousness has been historically present in the context of Zen Buddhist philosophy, wherein true embodiment is considered...
Yeongnam Toegye Studies Institute
June 30, 2018
Hyunseung Shin
중국 명대 말기 강남 지역은 유교, 불교, 도교의 삼교합일 사상이 성행하였다. 비록 그 시대는 혼란과 분열, 갈등과 대립이 극에 달해 왕조(王朝) 교체라는 비극적 장면을 맞이하고 있었지만, 학계에서는 조화와 화합의 사상운동이 전개되고 있었다. 유교와 불교의 관계에서 볼 때, 명대에는 불교가 그 어느 시대보다도 당시의 유학자들에게 커다란 영향을 끼친다. 이는 송대부터 시작된 일인데, 유교의 철학적 용어와 체계는 대략적으로 불교로부터 강한 영향을 받은 것이다. 특히 선종(禪宗)의 영향을 크게 받고 있으며, 명대에 성립된 신유학의 일파로서 양명학도 불교의 영향을 크게 받는다. 명말청초의 유학자 황종희가 명대 최고의 유학자로 존숭한 유종주는 이와 같은 시공간적 배경 하에서 불교에 대항하여 그것과는 조금...
International Journal of Buddhist Thought and Culture
June 30, 2018
Christopher S. Queen
1 citation
Buddhist meditation, also known as mindfulness and vipassana, has been a hallmark of Buddhist revival in many parts of the world. Engaged Buddhists - those who see their practice as a collective response to the institutional causes of suffering and injustice in society - have generally regarded meditation as a foundation and a resource for their struggle. Recent criticisms of meditation have...
Religions
June 26, 2018
Teng-Kuan Ng
5 citations
This paper studies the ways that Walker, a short film by the Malaysian-Taiwanese auteur Tsai Ming-Liang, visualizes the relationship between Buddhism and modernity. Via detailed film analysis as well as attention to sources in premodern Buddhist traditions, this paper argues that its filmic performance of Zen walking meditation serves two functions: To present slowness and simplicity as...
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History
June 25, 2018
Natasha Heller
Buddhist practice transformed the religious landscape in China, introducing new forms of mental cultivation and new ritual technologies within an altered cosmology of spiritual goals. Buddhist practice was carried out by individuals, but was equally as often a communal activity. A basic unit of religious practice was the family; Buddhist cultivation was also carried out by communities of...
May 8, 2018
Raul Moncayo
Sigmund Freud conceived of psychoanalytic practice as different from that of priests and pastoral or educational counsellors. The deadly aspect of mystical experience destroys identity in the sense that it destroys the illusory or imaginary notion of ego. Zen practice is commonly referred to as leading to an ego-death. Psychoanalysis, and Lacanian psychoanalysis in particular, contains a very...
May 1, 2018
Kendall Roper
1 citation
Post-modernism asserts that the world as we know it does not exist independently from the symbolic interpretations we formulate about it. This symbolic and ever unfolding interpretation of reality applies to our understanding of science as well as philosophy, to religion as well as art. In striving to describe religious experiences, various cultures have developed complex symbolic languages...
불교학보
March 31, 2018
Eun-su Cho
본 논문은 국제적 비파사나 명상 네트워크인 고엥카의 “비파사나 명상 센터”(Vipassana Meditation Center)의 운영 방식을 주목하여, 그 운영의 원칙 속에 녹아서 작동하는 초기불교의 이념을 분석해 보임으로써, 가르치는 법(法, Dharma)의 내용과 이 수행프로그램을 운영하는 방식 간에 존재하는 일관성이 이 단체를 세계적인 조직으로 성장하게 한 원동력이 되었음을 보이고자 한다. 이 프로그램은 정교한 체계와 광범한 조직을 가지고 있으며, 그 운영의 원칙은 프로그램의 내용과 상관성을 가지며 명실상부하게 이루어지고 있다. 열흘간의 수행프로그램을 통해 수련생들은 명상법과 불교의 가르침을 배우고 느끼며, 궁극적으로 프로그램 운영의 원칙이 불교의 담마(Dhamma)에 기반하고 있음을 체험한다....
Religions
March 22, 2018
Brooke Schedneck
Female non-Buddhists have been writing detailed descriptions of their personal experiences in vipassanā meditation retreats since the 1960s. These memoirists relate to the English-speaking world their experience of the retreat process and self-transformations. Early memoirists traveled Asia in order to learn and practice vipassanā meditation. These memoirs are as much about the meditation...
March 18, 2018
Polgolle Kusaladhamma
Neuroscientists and genetics started a new era in human history. Neuroscience is a modern science and it developed after 1950. Scientific study of the body investigates how the messages in transit from the senses to the brain and make decisions and feelings. The neuron system of the body is the coordinator of the transiting information in the body. Neurons are cells specialized for...