January 6, 2012
José Carlos Michelazzo
The science and media had opened great space for meditation, showing especially the physical and mental benefits into mechanic daily life of our age. Although it is not possible to deny these benefits, the meditative practice, especially the Master Dōgen’s Zazen, has indeed much more to do with a little less visible and attractive side. In the place of quick benefits, there is pain and the...
Psychology
2012
Lynn E. O’Connor, Jack W. Berry, David J. Stiver et al.
14 citations
Depression appears to be somewhat epidemic in the modern world. In prior empirical studies we found depression significantly associated with empathy-based guilt, empathic distress, and an overly active or misattributing moral system. In this study, we compared 98 Buddhists, who were primarily Tibetan meditation practitioners to 438 non-Buddhist, non-practicing community adults on a measure of...
Rinsho shinkeigaku = Clinical neurology
2012
Hideho Arita
To gain insight into the neurophysiological mechanisms involved in Zen meditation, we evaluated the effects of abdominal (Tanden) breathing in novices. We investigated hemodynamic changes in the prefrontal cortex (PFC), an ttention-related brain region, using 24-channel near-infrared spectroscopy during a 20-munite session of Tanden breathing in 15 healthy volunteers. We found that the level of...
Explore
2012
Adam Burke
A significant number of studies have been published examining the mind-body effects of meditation and its clinical efficacy. There are very few studies, however, which directly compare different meditation methods with each other to explore potentially distinct mechanisms and effects, and no studies comparing individual preferences for different methods. As preference is seen as an important...
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
December 1, 2011
Zhuo Chen, Qi Wen, Ralph W. Hood et al.
54 citations
This study explores the phenomenological structure of mystical experience among 139 Chinese Pure Land and Chan Buddhist monks and nuns. Semi-structured interviews, thematic coding, and statistical analyses demonstrated that Stace's common facets of mysticism as measured by Hood's Mysticism Scale (M Scale) successfully described Buddhist experience as modified by Buddhist doctrines. Confirmatory...
Oxford University Press eBooks
October 28, 2011
Joseph Cheah
This chapter examines the contemporary adaptation of vipassana meditation by convert Buddhists and sympathizers to the American context. It employs racial formation theory to distinguish between cultural and racial rearticulations of Buddhist ideas, beliefs, and practices. Cultural rearticulation is an ordinary means of taking Asian religious practices and rerepresent them in terms that are...
Oxford University Press eBooks
October 28, 2011
Joseph Cheah
This chapter began with the contextualization of the historical circumstances in Burma and the United States that brought about the interactions between these two groups; namely, Burmese Buddhist specialists (monks and lay meditation teachers) and the American vipassana practitioners. It argues for a more comprehensive understanding of what “modern Buddhism” means for various constituents by...
BRILL eBooks
October 26, 2011
Bradley S. Clough
1 citation
capacities attained through meditation and concentration / edited by Knut A. Jacobsen. p. cm. — (Brill's indological library ; v. 37) ISBN 978-90-04-21214-5 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. South Asia—Religion. 2. Yoga. I. Jacobsen, Knut A., 1956- II. Title: Extraordinary capacities attained through
BRILL eBooks
October 26, 2011
Ryan Richard Overbey
capacities attained through meditation and concentration / edited by Knut A. Jacobsen. p. cm. — (Brill's indological library ; v. 37) ISBN 978-90-04-21214-5 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. South Asia—Religion. 2. Yoga. I. Jacobsen, Knut A., 1956- II. Title: Extraordinary capacities attained through
Transcultural Psychiatry
October 20, 2011
Piyanjali de Zoysa
25 citations
Buddhist practices have been increasingly influencing psychotherapy. For over 20 centuries, Buddhism has been the religion of a majority of Sri Lankans. However, there is little documentation of the use of Buddhist practices in psychotherapy in Sri Lanka. This paper presents a case study in which Theravadan Buddhist mindfulness meditation and cognitive therapy practices were used in the...