A brief introduction to the Western philosophical tradition of examining the difficult problem of man allows us, on the one hand, to identify aspects that bring it closer to Buddhist anthropology (the rejection of the epistemological paradigm and an emphasis on the ontology of freedom and the “hiddenness of being”); on the other hand, it highlights the latter’s profound specificity: it...
Black women’s engagement with Buddhism represents a distinct and under-examined pathway for healing from anti-Blackness. Drawing on publicly available memoirs and essays, this qualitative narrative inquiry explores how Black women describe their experiences with Buddhist practice in relation to racialized suffering and meaning-making. Using an interpretive thematic analysis, I identified three...
Mimbar Agama BudayaJuly 5, 2026Edi Priyono, Euis Dewi Yuliana, I Putu Sarjana et al.
Character education increasingly draws on religious and contemplative practices, yet how repeated ritual practice becomes internalized as character remains underexplored. This study examines character formation through chanting practice among students at the Institut Nalanda Jakarta dormitory by integrating Kelman’s theory of attitude change with the Abhidhamma perspective. Using a qualitative...
Introduction: Perspectives towards death have been largely negative across cultures, where fear, anxiety and avoidance have been prevalent practices in the face of death. Yet certain religions provide frameworks that signify the need to foster acceptance of mortality. Based on Tibetan Buddhism, the concept of impermanence (anicca) primarily occupies a central role in understanding the nature of...
Dharma has been extensively defined by source (Jaimini), effect (Kaṇāda), etymology (Mahābhārata), and normative function (Dharmaśāstra), but has rarely been formalised as a mechanism of real-time consciousness-to-action generation. This paper proposes an operational framework at three distinct levels. At the philosophical level, Dharma is identified as the context-sensitive action trajectory...
A personal essay collection and structured knowledge graph mapping the three major Buddhist Abhidharma traditions (Theravāda, Sarvāstivāda, Yogācāra) onto contemporary frameworks in computational phenomenology — predictive processing, active inference, Global Workspace Theory, Parallel Distributed Processing, and related approaches. Comprises sixteen essays (eight themes × English + Japanese),...
Can one learn more about one’s own religion through the practices of another? My positive answer to this question is illustrated in this paper by reflection on aspects of the Buddhist practice of emptiness, in specific connection with Christian under-standing of our lives as creatures. The Buddhist meditative practices I have in mind have several things in common. They are introspective...
[연구 목적] 본 논문은 이즈쓰 도시히코의『의식과 본질』에 나타난 대화론을 문화 간 대화와 선적 대화에 초점을 맞추어 고찰하고, 비종교의 시대에 종교교육에 대해 갖는 의의를 밝히는 데 목적이 있다. [연구 내용] 본 논문은 먼저 교육적 관계의 대화적 성격과 그 안에서 종교성이 갖는 역할을 밝힌다. 이어서 이즈쓰 사상에서 문화와 언어의 관계를 분석하고, 문화적․언어적 분절 속에서 대화의 불가능성이 어떻게 발생하는지를 해명한다. 이러한 논의를 배경으로, 본 논문은 본질의 부정으로서의 선, 분절에서 비분절을 거쳐 분절(II)로 나아가는 운동, 그리고 비분절에 근거한 수직적 대화로서 선적 대화의 구조를 고찰한다. [결론] 선적 대화는 선을 종교적 내용으로 교육에 도입하는 것으로 이해되어서는 안 되며, 종교성에...
This study comparatively analyzes the course structures of three domestic graduate institutions offering Buddhist counseling-related curricula: the Department of Meditation, Psychology, and Counseling at Dongguk University Graduate School of Buddhist Studies; the Meditation Counseling program at Dongbang Culture University; and the Counseling Studies track within the Department of Buddhist...
This study aims to analyze research trends in Buddhist counseling-related academic journal articles published in South Korea from 2016 to 2025 and to propose directions for future research. To this end, articles identifiable through domestic academic search services - including KCI, RISS, DBpia, eArticle, and KOAJ - as well as open internet searches were reviewed for publications from 2016...