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American Journal of Human Biology, Volume 36, Issue 12, December 2024.ABSTRACT Buddhist Jhāna meditation and the Christian practice of speaking in tongues appear wildly distinct. These spiritual techniques differ in their ethical, theological, and historical frames and seem, from the outside, to produce markedly different states of consciousness—one a state of utter calm and the other of high emotional arousal.
Josh Brahinsky +4 more
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Women's Dharma: Parwati Soepangat and Buddhist Feminist Theology in Postcolonial Indonesia*
Journal of Religious History, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 423-441, December 2024.This article uses the life and career of Parwati Soepangat as a case study to shed light on the narrative of Buddhist women in postcolonial Indonesia. It contends that, unlike Theravāda Buddhist‐majority nations in mainland Southeast Asia, Indonesia's lack of a patriarchal monastic authority allowed Buddhist women, like Parwati Soepangat, to emerge ...
Jack Meng‐Tat Chia
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Vipassana Meditation, Self-Esteem, and Emotion Regulation
, 2020 This study assesses the directionality of the relationship between Vipassana meditation, practitioners’ self-esteem, and difficulties with emotion regulation.
MehdiNejad, Laleh
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Centering and counselor empathy: Examining the moderating effects of nondual awareness
Journal of Counseling &Development, Volume 102, Issue 4, Page 445-455, October 2024.Abstract Centering is a contemplative practice derived from centering prayer. In the context of counseling, our study explores centering as an intervention to enhance counselors’ empathy. Additionally, we investigate the moderating influence of nonduality, particularly bliss, on the changes in empathy over time.
Daniel Gutierrez +2 more
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Mental health and wellbeing of undergraduate students in engineering: A systematic literature review
Journal of Engineering Education, Volume 113, Issue 4, Page 1046-1075, October 2024.Abstract Background The wellbeing of college students today is at risk because of rising occurrences of mental health issues in higher education. Concurrently, undergraduate students perceive engineering courses and programs to be among the most arduous, and least welcoming and accommodating, in higher education.
Muhammad Asghar +2 more
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The Leisure Meaning of Vipassana Activities – Tai-Chi Chuan as an Example
, 2012 [[abstract]]To relieve the heavy pressure of the modern lifestyle, those Vipassana leisure activities, for instance, yoga, meditation, tai-chi, etc., have the function of contemplation of personal physical and mental state, and people pay more attention ...
Chuang, Shu-Min
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The lived experiences of experienced Vipassana Mahasi meditators: an interpretative phenomenological analysis. [PDF]
, 2018 Research into the effects and mechanisms of mindfulness training draws predominantly on quantitative research. There is a lack of understanding about the subjective experiences of experienced mindfulness meditators, which may provide additional insights ...
Garip, Gulcan +2 more
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Ethos, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 186-205, June 2024.Abstract Drawing upon Stanley J. Tambiah's idea of “world conquerors” and “world renouncers,” this article examines the Burmese political festival (nainganyei pwe) as a ritual, affective, and material space where former political prisoners reinterpret violence and engage in forms of collective and personal “world‐making.” The article focuses on one ...
Seinenu M. Thein‐Lemelson
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The Buddhist Psychological Concepts of Samatha and Vipassana
DEStech Transactions on Social Science, Education and Human Science, 2018 The key concepts of Buddhism’s traditional psychology are samatha and vipassana, which incorporates, in some form and to some degree, all Theravada Buddhism, Mahayana Buddhism and Tantric Buddhism’s philosophical and psychological major ideas. Therefore, this paper will use hermeneutics as its research method, take the study of the concept of samatha ...
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Mindfulness training in healthcare professions: A scoping review of systematic reviews
Medical Education, Volume 58, Issue 6, Page 671-686, June 2024.Abstract Purpose The effectiveness of mindfulness training (MT) on mental health and wellbeing in different groups and contexts is well‐established. However, the effect of MT on different healthcare professionals' (HCPs) mental health and wellbeing needs to be synthesised, along with a focus on outcomes that are specifically relevant to healthcare ...
Nabeela Kajee +5 more
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