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Mindful and Intuitive Eating: A Bibliometric Analysis of Research Trends From 2004 to 2024

open access: yesObesity Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Excessive body weight and problematic eating behaviors are major public health concerns. Mindful eating and intuitive eating offer alternative approaches to dieting by encouraging individuals to focus on internal hunger and satiety cues.
Mengying Zhang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Preparatory Guidelines for Meditation in Pre-Modern Sino-Tibetan Buddhist Traditions

open access: yesReligions
This study offers a comparative analysis of preparatory practices in Buddhist meditation, focusing on the Tiantai tradition of medieval China and the Nyingma tradition of tenth-century Tibet.
Ching-Hsuan Mei
doaj   +1 more source

Esoteric Theravada Buddhism in Burma/Myanmar

open access: yesScripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 2013
The achievement of independence in 1948 was in many ways a watershed in Burma’s history. At this time, a variety of Buddhist movements emerged that were part not only of a ‘Burmese Buddhist revival’, in which even the government was involved, but also a ...
Niklas Foxeus
doaj   +1 more source

Preference‐Based Representations for Collective Agency

open access: yesTopics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Computational accounts of learning and decision‐making in cognitive systems, and models thereof, such as reinforcement learning, typically assume that the behavior of individual agents is determined by an externally designated reward signal such that the agent's goal is the maximization of its expected accumulated reward under the state ...
Nadav Amir   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Crafting Cinema in the Buddhist Contemplative Gaze

open access: yesReligions, 2019
In this essay, I discuss the evolution of my approach to creating Buddhist contemplative cinema. I begin, by way of personal anecdotes, defining my approach to Buddhist life and the evolution of what I will call the “Buddhist contemplative gaze ...
Edward A. Burger
doaj   +1 more source

I stumbled when I saw: Fieldwork, fallibility, and the politics of being wrong

open access: yesAnthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 2, December 2026.
Abstract What does it mean for an anthropologist to be wrong? This essay takes the question seriously in two registers at once: the everyday mistakes of fieldwork, from mistranslating a greeting to misreading a shaved head as a sign of mourning, and the deeper entitlement through which our discipline claimed authority over other people's languages and ...
Mark Turin
wiley   +1 more source

Meditation alters perceptual rivalry in Tibetan Buddhist monks [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Neuroscientific studies of the mind are likely to benefit from the insights and skills of Tibetan Buddhist monks who have practiced the historic tradition of meditative training over many years — a point made recently at a forum between a selection of ...
Liu, G.B.   +19 more
core   +1 more source

Exploring the Impact of Teacher-Led Silent Meditation Practices in Buddhist Sunday Schools

open access: yesJournal of Nonformal Education
There is a notable reluctance or uncertainty among practitioners regarding the effective grasp and application of health meditation techniques, which impacts the overall effectiveness of meditation education and potentially hinders the optimization of ...
I Ketut Damana, Colin Simonds
doaj   +1 more source

Feasibility and Acceptability of a Newly Developed Mindfulness Follow‐On Group Program ‘Deepening Mindfulness and Mindful Communication’: A Pilot Study

open access: yesCounselling and Psychotherapy Research, Volume 26, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Background Despite evidence for the benefits of long‐term sustained practice, there is a limited availability of evidence‐based follow‐on mindfulness‐based programs for those who participated in the initial 8‐week program. Therefore, we developed and evaluated the feasibility and acceptability of a newly developed follow‐on group program that ...
Maya J. Schroevers   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Zen Meditation and Aromatherapy as a Core to Mental Health: Studies in Vietnamese Monasteries

open access: yesReligions
(1) Background: Meditation, originally stemming from the Buddhist tradition, has been the subject of extensive psychological research, with a growing body of literature exploring its effects on various mental and physical health aspects.
Joanna Różycka-Tran   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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