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A Review of Buddhist Concentration-, Ethics-, and Wisdom-Based Meditation Practices for Prevention and Recovery from Gambling Harm [PDF]

open access: yes
This critical review assesses the use of Buddhist concentration-, ethics-, and wisdom-based meditation practices in the context of prevention and recovery from gambling harm. It begins by exploring the core psychological mechanisms and processes involved
Furnell, M., Van Gordon, W.
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Buddhist Ethics for Improving Health and Well-Being during Pandemics Like COVID-19 with Special References to Modern Scientific Experiments

open access: yesReligions
The purpose of this research is to examine whether Buddhist ethics can improve the health and well-being of Buddhist practitioners during pandemics like COVID-19.
Pathompong Bodhiprasiddhinand
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Buddhist Philosophy and the Ideals of Environmentalism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
I examine the consistency between contemporary environmentalist ideals and Buddhist philosophy, focusing, first, on the problem of value in nature.
SCIBERRAS, COLETTE
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Kumārajīva’s Meditative Legacy in China

open access: yesSpirituality Studies, 2015
The article shows that in China and other Far East countries, where Chinese Buddhism spread at the early stages of Mahāyāna Buddhism, traditional methods of Buddhist practice, as explained in the Āgamas, were in practice, but reinterpreted from the ...
Bhante Dhammadipa
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The Madhyamaka Speaks to the West: A philosophical analysis of śūnyatā as a universal truth [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Through a philosophical analysis of realist interpretations of Madhyamaka Buddhism, I will argue that the Madhyamaka is not well represented when it is represented as nihilism, absolutism or as some non-metaphysical alternative. Indeed, I will argue that
McGuire, Robert
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Rethinking Self-Understanding in the Age of AI: From Reflective Outcome to Pre-Configured Self-Understanding

open access: yesReligions
This study reconceptualizes self-understanding not as a reflective outcome but as a conditionally constituted process grounded in the Buddhist principle of dependent origination (pratītyasamutpāda).
Kwanghyun Han, Sejin Chang
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Kucha and Termez—Caves for Mindful Pacing and Seated Meditation

open access: yesReligions
In this paper, by comparing the archaeological remains of meditation caves in Kucha and Termez and by referring to Buddhist literature, we aim at gaining a better understanding of how meditation was practiced in both regions. In Kucha and Termez the arid
Giuseppe Vignato, Xiaonan Li
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Buddhist meditation as art practice : art practice as Buddhist meditation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This thesis explores the impact of meditation on art practice. Its basic hypothesis is that Buddhist meditation can expand creative capacity by enabling the practitioner to transcend the limits of everyday sense experience and consciousness.
Hsieh, Su-Lien, Dorsett, Chris
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Meditating for Mental Health? Modern Predicaments and Buddhist Responses in Republican China

open access: yesReligions
This paper examines the discourse surrounding the relationship between meditation and psychological well-being from a historical perspective. While both Buddhist practitioners and psychotherapists aspire to a state of health, they appear to diverge on ...
Matteo Sgorbati
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