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Is mindfulness Buddhist? (and why it matters). [PDF]

, 2015
Modern exponents of mindfulness meditation promote the therapeutic effects of "bare attention"--a sort of non-judgmental, non-discursive attending to the moment-to-moment flow of consciousness.
Ahn J., Brown G. W., Cousins L. S., Cox C., Forman R. K. C., Gethin R., Gombrich R., Gregory P. N., Griffiths P. J., Griffiths P. J., Gyatso J., Houtman G., Hsiao B. H., Hubbard J., Jordt I., Katz S. T., Katz S. T., Katz S. T., Kirchner T., Kuan Tse-fu, LeVine S., Lopez D. S., Lopez D. S., McMahan D. L., Nyanaponika, Nyanaponika, Obeyesekere G., Poceski M., Proudfoot W., Robert H. Sharf, Sharf R. H., Sharf R. H., Taylor J. B., van Schaik S., Varela F. J., Yanagida S., Zhang Y.   +36 more
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Identifying Effective Informal Mindfulness Practices in Daily Activities

Journal of International Buddhist Studies, 2018
Mindfulness is a state of consciousness that entails regulating attention to focus on the moment-to-moment experience with an open orientation. The ability to evoke and sustain this state can be cultivated by both formal and informal meditation practices.
Ke Zhang
doaj  

Tracing change in the public perception of plants: insights from archives and social media in China

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
As urbanization accelerates, historic gardens serve as vital cultural treasures that offer spiritual and cultural support to the public. This study proposes an innovative approach that merges historical records from the Qing Dynasty with contemporary social media data to explore changes in public perceptions of these gardens.
Dong Xu, Pei‐yan Wang, Ya‐nan Li, Nan Hu, Yun‐yuan Li   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Particle to Purpose: A Systems‐Theoretical Model of Unity and Coherent Adaptation

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper develops a conceptual integration that bridges classical systems theories with insights from the Islamic intellectual tradition, focusing on the notion of zerre (particle) as articulated by Said Nursî. We reinterpret zerre as a systems‐theoretical agent that exhibits lawful responsiveness without autonomy, offering a new lens on how
Erhan Atay
wiley   +1 more source

Post‐Traumatic Growth in the Global South: Possibilities in Relational Ethics from Communities to Classrooms

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article reports on a qualitative study of the way instructors and students understand and respond to traumatizing events in a Sri Lankan university. It shows how the attitudes and practices in the society at large are carried over to classrooms even though local institutions do not have a programmatic trauma‐informed pedagogy.
Suresh Canagarajah, Canista Arthie Hensman   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring attitude towards Buddhism and Sikhism : internal consistency reliability for two new instruments [PDF]

, 2011
This paper describes and discusses the development and empirical properties of two new 24-item scales – one measuring attitude toward Buddhism and the other measuring attitude toward Sikhism.
Adamson J, Cantwell-Smith W, De Silva P, DeVellis RF, Francis LJ, Francis LJ, Francis LJ, Gombrich R, Hill PC, Kline P, Nesbitt E, Phra Nicholas Thanissaro, Pupatana S, Sahin A, Smith AGC, Smith DL, Thananart M, Tori CD   +17 more
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From Nominalisation to Passive in Old Tibetan: Reconstructing Grammatical Meaning in an Extinct Language1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
wiley   +1 more source

On Buddhism, Divination and the Worldly Arts: Textual Evidence from the Theravāda Tradition [PDF]

, 2014
This essay attends to the sticky web of indigenous terminology concerning divination and other so-called “mundane” or “worldly” arts, focusing primarily upon Buddhist canonical texts preserved in Pāli, augmented by references to commentarial and ...
Fiordalis, David
core   +1 more source

Reconstructing Old Chinese *‐ts Using Han‐Time Material

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Baxter & Sagart (2014b) reconstruct *‐Vt‐s on the basis of Middle Chinese reflexes in ‐jH (from some OC *‐s) coupled with either etymological or graphic connections to words in Middle Chinese ‐t. This approach, while perfectly sound, can suffer from lack of etymological or graphic data, leading to missed reconstructions. Since Old Chinese *‐ts
Julien Baley
wiley   +1 more source

Neural Pattern of Chanting-Driven Intuitive Inquiry Meditation in Expert Chan Practitioners

Behavioral Sciences
Background: Intuitive inquiry meditation (Can-Hua-Tou) is a unique mental practice which differs from relaxation-based practices by continuously demanding intuitive inquiry.
Kin Cheung George Lee, Hin Hung Sik, Hang Kin Leung, Bonnie Wai Yan Wu, Rui Sun, Junling Gao   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source