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Political Science | Law, Justice And Law Enforcement Not Elsewhere Classified | Comparative Government And Politics | Studies In Human Society Not Elsewhere Classified
Understanding other countries | Understanding political systems |
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 16-07-2014
DOI: 10.3390/REL5030560
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 27-03-2008
Abstract: Yoga, tantra and other forms of Asian meditation are practised in modernized forms throughout the world today, but most introductions to Hinduism or Buddhism tell only part of the story of how they developed. This book is an interpretation of the history of Indic religions up to around 1200 CE, with particular focus on the development of yogic and tantric traditions. It assesses how much we really know about this period, and asks what sense we can make of the evolution of yogic and tantric practices, which were to become such central and important features of the Indic religious scene. Its originality lies in seeking to understand these traditions in terms of the total social and religious context of South Asian society during this period, including the religious practices of the general population with their close engagement with family, gender, economic life and other pragmatic concerns.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 13-04-2009
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-2001
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 29-06-2011
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2012
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 05-12-2014
Abstract: Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT), and other “mindfulness”-based techniques have rapidly gained a significant presence within contemporary society. Clearly these techniques, which derive or are claimed to derive from Buddhist meditational practices, meet genuine human needs. However, questions are increasingly raised regarding what these techniques meant in their original context(s), how they have been transformed in relation to their new Western and global field of activity, what might have been lost (or gained) on the way, and how the entire contemporary mindfulness phenomenon might be understood. The article points out that first-generation mindfulness practices, such as MBSR and MBCT, derive from modernist versions of Buddhism, and omit or minimize key aspects of the Buddhist tradition, including the central Buddhist philosophical emphasis on the deconstruction of the self. Nonself (or no self) fits poorly into the contemporary therapeutic context, but is at the core of the Buddhist enterprise from which contemporary “mindfulness” has been abstracted. Instead of focussing narrowly on the practical efficacy of the first generation of mindfulness techniques, we might see them as an invitation to explore the much wider range of practices available in the traditions from which they originate. Rather, too, than simplifying and reducing these practices to fit current Western conceptions of knowledge, we might seek to incorporate more of their philosophical basis into our Western adaptations. This might lead to a genuine and productive expansion of both scientific knowledge and therapeutic possibilities.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 12-04-2013
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 19-11-2011
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 20-02-2019
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 21-08-2012
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Date: 2012
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2013
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2012
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-1989
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2010
Publisher: Duke University Press
Date: 02-1982
DOI: 10.2307/2054940
Abstract: Tibet is the most numerically significant society practicing Vajrayana (Tantric) Buddhism. The unusual features of religion in Tibetan society are often understood in terms of differences between Vajrayana and other forms of Buddhism. The author suggests here that Tibet is not a “typical” Vajrayana society compared to the Newars or the Balinese, and that what is special about religion in Tibet is related to structural differences between Tibetan society and Buddhist states elsewhere in Asia. Tibet historically has been a region where a centralized state was barely achievable, and Tibetan political structures have more in common with stateless societies than with states. Buddhism in Tibetan society has analogies with Islam in structurally similar Islamic societies.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 29-06-2011
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2010
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Start Date: 07-2004
End Date: 06-2009
Amount: $1,500,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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