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...
Technical Transactions
2018
Péter Győri, Albert Fekete, Agnes Herczeg
The paper reviews some recent attempts that describe the meaning of dry gardens that can be found in Zen Buddhist monasteries in Japan.When researchers try to figure out the meaning of the visual elements, its structure or the placement of the stones, they usually stay on the level of understanding.However, the daily meditational practice among these walls near the dry garden provides a...
Harvard Theological Review
2018
Marianne Moyaert
12 citations
Abstract Comparative theology generally begins from a study of texts, scriptural texts that have been canonized, and commentaries on these texts—as well as philosophical, theological and mystical treatises. Though this textual focus gives us access to some of the most subtle and nuanced reasonings developed in various traditions, I am concerned that this textual focus may limit our...
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...
Neurology and Neuroscience Reports
2018
Jose R Ponc, Joel Eduardo Martinez
Introduction: Since ancient times, different thinkers saw the harmful effects of extreme emotion on humans.Actually, is known as that affective process implies the imbalance that constitutes stress, and the damage that this produces mainly to the immune system.Therefore, the stress has it effect the growth of cancerous tissue in the patient with said disease.Consequently, the reduction or...
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...
Buddhist-Christian Studies
2018
Pamela Ayo Yetunde
1 citation
Virtually every published academic study on American Buddhist practitioners excludes the culturally specific experiences of African American Buddhist practitioners. In the Insight Meditation Community (initially created by white Jewish American practitioners who studied and practiced in Southeast Asia before bringing the Theravada-influenced practices and teachings to the United States), there...
Philosophy East and West
2018
Maria Heim, Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad
5 citations
Thus one should define, in a double way, name and form in all phenomena of the three realms…" --Visuddhimagga XVIII.24In this paper, we want to bring together two issues for their mutual illumination: (i) the particular use of that hoary Indian dyad, "nāma-rūpa", literally, "name-and-form by Buddhaghosa, the influential 5 th c Theravāda writer, to organize the categories of the abhidhamma, the...
2018
Peter J. de Jong
Body awareness has been proposed as one of the major mechanisms of mindfulness interventions, and it has been shown that chronic pain and depression are associated with decreased levels of body awareness.We investigated the effect of mindfulnessbased cognitive therapy (MBCT) on body awareness in patients with chronic pain and comorbid active depression compared to treatment as usual (TAU;...