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May 1, 2011
In the wide range of Buddhist meditation and spirituality a very special place is held by the practice of calling on the name of Amitabha, or in Japanese Amida Buddha, using the simplest of formulas, the nenbutsu. Japanese masters such as Honen, Shinran and others made this the core of a profound spiritual experience which has fascinated numberless followers ever since. The deeper meaning of...
Contemporary Buddhism May 1, 2011 J. Mark G. Williams, Jon Kabat‐zinn 390 citations
The guest editors introduce this special issue on Mindfulness, explaining its rationale, aims, and intentions. Integrating mindfulness-based approaches into medicine, psychology, neuroscience, heal...
International Journal of Psychophysiology May 1, 2011 Xinjun Yu, Masaki Fumoto, Yasushi Nakatani et al.
To gain insight into the neurophysiological mechanisms involved in Zen meditation, we evaluated the effects of focused attention (FA) on breathing movements in the lower abdomen (Tanden) in novices. We investigated hemodynamic changes in the prefrontal cortex (PFC), an attention-related brain region, using 24-channel near-infrared spectroscopy during a 20-minute session of FA on Tanden...
Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience 2011 Dinse Hubert
As a consequence, changes in the external world alter brain organization, which lead to changes in perception and behaviour. However, little is known [2,3] how purely internal, mental states – such as the focus of attention, imagery or meditation – affect behaviour and performance in the absence of external stimulation. The effects of altered external stimulation of the body on somatosensory...
2011 Susan Wong Po-shan
This doctrinal study demonstrates in what way the ‘Universal Applicability’ of Buddha Dhamma can be reflected in the intervention process in view of the contemporary situation of the Buddhist Mindfulness being integrated as a psychotherapeutic technique. In past few decades, the Western psychotherapists recognize Mindfulness as ‘the heart of Buddhist meditation’ and apply it as an impartial...
2011 James Robson
The term medium or translates the Chinese term, which has often been - problematically, in most cases - rendered as shaman. Anthropologists have tried provide some analytic clarity a cluster of terms used label similar involving the descent of a or deity into a host. Raymond Firth understands spirit possession as designating phenomena of abnormal behavior which are interpreted by other members...
Pain 2011 Joshua A Grant, Jérôme Courtemanche, Pierre Rainville
Concepts originating from ancient Eastern texts are now being explored scientifically, leading to new insights into mind/brain function. Meditative practice, often viewed as an emotion regulation strategy, has been associated with pain reduction, low pain sensitivity, chronic pain improvement, and thickness of pain-related cortices. Zen meditation is unlike previously studied emotion regulation...
Journal of the American Academy of Religion 2011 Ryan Bongseok Joo
One surprising and yet relatively unknown aspect of contemporary Korean Buddhism is the significant influence of American and European Buddhism. Between 1989 and 2009, South Koreans witnessed well-educated “blue-eyed” monastic residents via the Korean media, and the emergence of new bestsellers by authors like Thich Nhat Hahn and Jack Kornfield, written initially for Western audiences but since...
Journal of Holistic Nursing December 21, 2010 Michael Johnson
Objectives: To test the hypothesis that a novel Zen dialogue-based method can bring about significant improvements in spiritual, meditation, and well-being parameters. Design: A pretest-posttest design was used with participants being randomly assigned to either treatment or no treatment group at the Zen Center. The participants were 14 females and 2 males within each group with no prior formal...
The Journal of Buddhist Thought and Culture December 1, 2010 Seong-cheol Kim
It is well known that the Vijñānavāda-school has developed from the meditators called yogācā, who practised various kind of the meditations in the wilderness. In the Yogācārabhūmi, the main text-corpus of the Vijñānavāda-school, we can find the striking definition on the meditation, which shows the synthetical character of this school very clearly, that the meditation is characterized by the...