Building a Culture of Care in Laboratory Animal Science through practicing "remembrance": A reflection on local practices in Sri Lanka. [PDF]
Animal Model Exp MedThis flowchart shows how remembrance activities create space for emotional reflection, helping individuals respect and acknowledge their feelings about working with lab animals, and enhance team commitment to improve lab animal welfare. This emotional awareness can reduce compassion fatigue fueled by cultural and religious beliefs and promote human ...
Amarasekara ADDS +5 more
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"Intelligence Running Wild": Edward Podvoll (1936-2003) and the Unfolding of the "Contemplative Psychotherapy" Project. [PDF]
J Hist Behav SciABSTRACT This paper explores the origins and development of the “contemplative psychotherapy” project in the United States, emerging around psychoanalyst Edward Podvoll and the intellectual environment at Naropa University during the 1970s and 1980s.
Priviero T.
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Personal and relational experiences on meditation journeys following developmental trauma: An IPA study of adults who experienced an inconsistent evolved developmental niche. [PDF]
Psychol PsychotherAbstract Objectives In recent decades, research has increasingly highlighted the devastating effects of childhood trauma and relational processes that violate human development. However, the unique dynamics of such early‐life deprivations in adults who practice meditation, a context where the complexity of such wounding (and healing) may become ...
Frastali AM, Rawal A.
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What Weber Got Right About Brahmins-Testing His Theories About South Asian Caste Hierarchies. [PDF]
J Hist Behav SciABSTRACT The following article is an assessment of Max Weber's depiction of Brahmins and ascetics in South Asia. Using contemporary historical analyses, the article has attempted to demonstrate the validity of Weber's analyses in his seminal treatise on South Asian society, “The Religion of India: The Sociology of Hinduism and Buddhism” that he had ...
Pal S.
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Gifts and Ghosts: A Derridean Reading of Theravada Communities
Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, 2019 Because Europeans have shaped scholarly discourse about Southeast Asia and Buddhism, movement away from understanding “pure” Theravada Buddhism through religious and philosophical doctrine was a technique to decenter Western readings and shows how ...
Sokthan Yeng
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Buddhism, Wealth, and Privilege: Ambedkar and Habermas
Religions, 2023 This essay compares key essays on Buddhism by B.R. Ambedkar and Jürgen Habermas vis-à-vis the issue of Buddhism, wealth, and privilege, and the respective statements again to what the Buddha taught, from a Theravada perspective.
Pisith San +2 more
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The emerging role of Buddhism in clinical psychology: Toward effective integration. [PDF]
, 2014 Research into the clinical utility of Buddhist-derived interventions (BDIs) has increased greatly over the last decade. While clinical interest has predominantly focused on mindfulness meditation, there has also been an increase in the scientific ...
Griffiths, MD, Shonin, E, Van Gordon, W
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Situating Narrative and Systematic Accounts of Wisdom
Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture, 2021 Preview: /Review: Steven Collins, Wisdom as a Way of Life: Theravāda Buddhism Reimagined (Columbia University Press, 2020), 304 pages./ Steven Collins was in the process of finalizing his manuscript and final academic work on Buddhism when he passed ...
Kevin C. Taylor
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Journal of Global Buddhism, 2022 Theravada as practiced by most converts in the West is distinguished by the absence of monasticism, its dominant institution. Nevertheless, Thai Forest monasticism has managed to gain a foothold in the convert West, thanks to the efforts of convert ...
Karen Ferguson
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Sociological Definitions, Language Games and the "Essence" of Religion [PDF]
, 2002 Peer ...
McKinnon, Andrew M.
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