This paper examines how the teaching of embodied practices of transnational Buddhist
meditation has been designated for healing depression explicitly in contemporary Chinese …

Based on ethnographic fieldwork in mainland China, this paper will examine how some
Chinese today practising Buddhist meditation in a hybrid way aiming at liberation in …

On the last morning of the ten-day meditation retreat, the closing session was about to start
in the meditation hall of Yun Shan Monastery in Jiangxi in South China. 1 Yellow …

This thesis aims to consider some of the differences between mindfulness as a Buddhist
practice and mindfulness-based programs. The primary difference considered is the …

In the past few decades, mindfulness meditation and other techniques of Buddhist origin
have been rapidly gaining in recognition as means of facilitating psychophysical health and …

This paper examines how the Buddhist revival, the Chan revival, and recent popularity of
transnational meditation practices have facilitated Chinese women practicing Buddhist …

In recent years,“mindfulness based psychotherapy” has emerged as a lucrative business
with its own brand of tech-savvy, scientific gurus and a literature that relies heavily on …

Very little has been published to date on China's rich traditions of Buddhist meditation.
Inspired by the need to increase meaningful interaction between China and the West on …

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 …

Since the 1970s non-Buddhist Westerners have been writing detailed descriptions of their
personal experiences in vipassanā meditation retreat settings. These memoirs illustrate that …