Experimental Buddhism
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Experimental Buddhism
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Author : John K. Nelson
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2013-10-31
Experimental Buddhism written by John K. Nelson and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-31 with Religion categories.
Based on ethnographic fieldwork and archival research, it is one of the first studies to give readers a sense of what is happening on the front lines as a growing number of Buddhist priests try to reboot their roles and traditions to gain greater significance in Japanese society. The book profiles innovative as well as controversial responses to the challenges facing Buddhist priests. From traditional activities (conducting memorial rituals; supporting residences for the elderly and infirm; providing relief for victims of natural disasters) to more creative ones (collaborating in suicide prevention efforts; holding symposia and concerts on temple precincts; speaking out against nuclear power following Japan’s 2011 earthquake; opening cafés, storefront temples, and pubs; even staging fashion shows with priests on the runway), more progressive members of Japan’s Buddhist clergy are trying to navigate a path leading towards renewed relevance in society. An additional challenge is to avoid alienating older patrons while trying to attract younger ones vital to the future of their temples. The work’s central theme of “experimental Buddhism”provides a fresh perspective to understand how priests and other individuals employ Buddhist traditions in selective and pragmatic ways. Using these inventive approaches during a time of crisis and transition for Japanese temple Buddhism, priests and practitioners from all denominations seek solutions that not only can revitalize their religious traditions but also influence society and their fellow citizens in positive ways.
Experimental Buddhism
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Author : John Kenneth Nelson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Experimental Buddhism written by John Kenneth Nelson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Buddhism categories.
Experimental Buddhism
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Author : Mónika Kiss
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Experimental Buddhism written by Mónika Kiss and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with categories.
The Mind Experiment
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Author : Bavo Lievens
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-04-20
The Mind Experiment written by Bavo Lievens and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-20 with categories.
======PUBLISHER DESCRIPTION====== Buddhism that matters. A comprehensive, no-nonsense practical guide to the enlightenment teachings, including many first-time translations from the Buddhist canon, as well as useful information not readily found elsewhere-- * a symbolic, deeply relevant biography of the Buddha * a comprehensive cosmology, including the various heavens and their associate mind-states * a full guide to the most positive methods of meditation, plus more. =======FROM THE BACK COVER======= THE MIND EXPERIMENT approaches Buddhism unlike any other book, not as a foreign belief system or an academic study to the specialty of 'Buddhology' but as an exploration of the enlightenment teachings that answers the spiritual needs of our time--a universal and secular spirituality, without beliefs or dogmas. It contains many first-time translations directly from the Buddhist canon, linking the enlightenment teachings of Buddhism with the main body of Western wisdom, --from Greek philosophy to Christian mysticism, modern science to American transcendentalism. =======ABOUT THE AUTHOR======= BAVO LIEVENS worked for the Belgian Foreign Service in Beijing, Hong Kong and Singapore, for 14 years, then moved to the US where he taught Buddhist Philosophy and Chinese Classics at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, for 14 years. He studied privately under Chinese Zen master Nan Huai-chin, who advised him in writing this book. =================================== For more information, please visit the book website at WWW.THEMINDEXPERIMENT.COM for an author autobiography, as well as testimonials from early manuscripts of the book. ===================================
An Experiment In Mindfulness
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Author : E. H. Shattock
language : en
Publisher: Red Wheel
Release Date : 1970
An Experiment In Mindfulness written by E. H. Shattock and has been published by Red Wheel this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Meditation categories.
Becoming Buddhist
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Author : Glenys Eddy
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2012-02-02
Becoming Buddhist written by Glenys Eddy and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-02 with Religion categories.
What does it mean to be a Western Buddhist? For the predominantly Anglo-Australian affiliates of two Western Buddhist centres in Australia, the author proposes an answer to this question, and finds support for it from interviews and her own participant-observation experience.Practitioners' prior experiences of experimentation with spiritual groups and practices-and their experiences of participation, practice and self-transformation-are examined with respect to their roles in practitioners' appropriation of the Buddhist worldview, and their subsequent commitment to the path to enlightenment.Religious commitment is experienced as a decision-point, itself the effect of the individual's experimental immersion in the Centre's activities.During this time the claims of the Buddhist worldview are tested against personal experience and convictions. Using rich ethnographic data and Lofland and Skonovd's experimental conversion motif as a model for theorizing the stages of involvement leading to commitment, the author demonstrates that this study has a wider application to our understanding of the role of alternative religions in western contexts.
Beyond The Self
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Author : Matthieu Ricard
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2018-11-13
Beyond The Self written by Matthieu Ricard and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-13 with Science categories.
A Buddhist monk and esteemed neuroscientist discuss their converging—and diverging—views on the mind and self, consciousness and the unconscious, free will and perception, and more. Buddhism shares with science the task of examining the mind empirically; it has pursued, for two millennia, direct investigation of the mind through penetrating introspection. Neuroscience, on the other hand, relies on third-person knowledge in the form of scientific observation. In this book, Matthieu Ricard, a Buddhist monk trained as a molecular biologist, and Wolf Singer, a distinguished neuroscientist—close friends, continuing an ongoing dialogue—offer their perspectives on the mind, the self, consciousness, the unconscious, free will, epistemology, meditation, and neuroplasticity. Ricard and Singer’s wide-ranging conversation stages an enlightening and engaging encounter between Buddhism’s wealth of experiential findings and neuroscience’s abundance of experimental results. They discuss, among many other things, the difference between rumination and meditation (rumination is the scourge of meditation, but psychotherapy depends on it); the distinction between pure awareness and its contents; the Buddhist idea (or lack of one) of the unconscious and neuroscience’s precise criteria for conscious and unconscious processes; and the commonalities between cognitive behavioral therapy and meditation. Their views diverge (Ricard asserts that the third-person approach will never encounter consciousness as a primary experience) and converge (Singer points out that the neuroscientific understanding of perception as reconstruction is very like the Buddhist all-discriminating wisdom) but both keep their vision trained on understanding fundamental aspects of human life.
An Experiment In Mindfulness
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Author : Ernest Henry Shattock
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1960
An Experiment In Mindfulness written by Ernest Henry Shattock and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1960 with categories.
Buddhism Science
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Author : B. Alan Wallace
language : en
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Release Date : 2004
Buddhism Science written by B. Alan Wallace and has been published by Motilal Banarsidass Publishe this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Buddhism and science categories.
Reflecting its wide variety of topics, Buddhism and science is comprised of three sections. The first presents two historical overviews of the engagements between Buddhism and modern science or rather how Buddhism and modern science have definced, rivaled and complemented one another. The second describes the ways Buddhism and the cognitive sciences inform each other, the third address point of intersection between Buddhsim and the physical sciences. On the broadest level this work illuminates how different ways of exploring the nature of human identity the mind, and the universe at large can enrich and enlighten one another.
Being And Ambiguity
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Author : Brook Ziporyn
language : en
Publisher: Open Court
Release Date : 2015-10-28
Being And Ambiguity written by Brook Ziporyn and has been published by Open Court this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-28 with Philosophy categories.
Being and Ambiguity is a brilliant work of philosophy, filled with insights, jokes, and topical examples. Professor Ziporyn draws on the works of such Western thinkers as Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, Freud, Sartre, and Hegel, but develops his main argument from Tiantai school of Chinese Buddhism. This important work introduces Tiantai Buddhism to the reader and demonstrates its relevance to profound philosophical issues. Ziporyn argues that we can make both of the claims below simultaneously: This book is about everything. It contains the answers to all philosophical problems which ever shall exist. This book is all claptrap. It is completely devoid of objective validity of any kind. These claims are not contradictory. Rather, they state the same thing in two different ways. To be objective truth is to be subjective claptrap, and vise versa. All interchanges of any kind - conversations, daydreams, sensations - are not only about something but also about everything. Thus, this book concerns itself with no less than the nature of what is and what it means for something to be what it is. It provides a new approach to the basic Western philosophical and psychological issues of identity, determinacy, being, desire, boredom, addiction, love and truth.