DEStech Transactions on Social Science Education and Human Science
March 6, 2018
Qing Ming
The key concepts of Buddhism’s traditional psychology are samatha and vipassana, which incorporates, in some form and to some degree, all Theravada Buddhism, Mahayana Buddhism and Tantric Buddhism’s philosophical and psychological major ideas. Therefore, this paper will use hermeneutics as its research method, take the study of the concept of samatha and vipassana in classical Pali texts and...
Zygon®
February 12, 2018
Jeff Wilson
Clinical and neuroscientific studies of Buddhist meditation practices are frequent topics in the news media, and have helped certain practices (such as mindfulness) achieve mainstream cultural status. Buddhists have reacted by using these studies in a number of ways. Some deploy the studies to show the compatibility of science and Buddhism, often using the authority of science to lend credence...
Философи, шашин судлал
February 9, 2018
Ишеков Н. С.
Key words: dhyāna, samādhi, the King of Concentration (Samādhirāja) Sūtra, the disturbing emotions (kleśa), single-pointed concentration, the meditative stages of Buddhist path, the nine mental states, Samatha meditation, “Calm abiding meditation, mindfulness on, resultant liberation (nirvāṇa); selflessness of phenomena,
February 1, 2018
Stephanie Kaza
3 citations
The worlds of religious naturalism and Zen Buddhism are wide-ranging geographies, offering diverse journeys to wisdom and insight. This chapter explores the insights of Zen Buddhism relevant to religious naturalism, particularly as developed in recent Western scholarship focused on thirteenth-century Japanese Zen philosopher Eihei Dogen. Dogen&s;s form of Zen stressed direct awakening through...
The Definition, Practice, and Psychology of Vedanā
January 2, 2018
Robert E. Buswell
Abstract The technique of ‘examining meditative topics’ (Chinese kanhua Chan) is one of the emblematic practices of the ‘Zen’ traditions of East Asia. (We in the West know this technique better as kōan practice, after its later Japanese analogues.) An emblematic feature of this technique is the generation of a sense of inquiry, or more literally a ‘feeling’ or ‘sensation of doubt’. This inquiry...
The Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture
2018
Michał Sokołowski
Butoh is, created in the late 1950s, a Japanese avant-garde dance theatre. Its main representatives were Hijikata Tatsumi (1928–1986) and Åno Kazuo (1906–2010). Hijikata criticized the rigid division into theater and dance, denied any form of strict codification of dance, and also rejected the concepts of technique and methods. Also for Åno rigid frame of existing dance genres turned out to...
TRANSMODERNITY Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World
2018
Ken Martin
1 citation
In Alejandro Jodorowsky’s autobiographical story El maestro y las magas (2006), the eclectic and esoteric artist spends a significant amount of time recounting his experience under the tutelage of Japanese Zen Buddhist monk Ejo Takata in Mexico City in the latter part of the 1960s into the early 1970s. Their relationship as master and disciple would be an important, if not foundational, part of...
International Journal of Neurology Research
2018
博之 吉留, Masataka Sunagawa, Toku Takahashi
45 citations
A number of modern researchers have studied the relationship between religion and health. In every religious tradition, virtues such as self-sacrifice, altruism, and appreciation have been considered quite essential. Arigato-Zen (AZ) (Gratitude Zen) is an easy and simple voice-meditation developed by Dr. Machida, which motivates the feeling of altruism and appreciation. By performing AZ, one is...
Digital Collections of Colorado
2018
Jack Hamblin, Matthew Mackenzie, Katie McShane et al.
1 citation
In Chapter 1, I describe necessary dimensions of Buddhist ethics. I comment on and argue for the inclusion of the four noble truths, meditation, the four immeasurable virtues, and regulating emotion. In Chapter 2, I establish the viability of virtue ethics. I review virtue ethics from an historical perspective, look at and answer a critique of the virtues, and distinguish my version of virtue...
NRCT Data Center
2018
Sukhumpong Channuwong
The purposes of this research were to present an integration of Buddhist teachings in stress management, and to form a model of Buddhist teachings in stress management. The research results show that stress is one state of suffering, which is caused by an accumulation of many problems in human life. Stress occurs when a person facing some problems feels that they are beyond his or her...