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An East Asian perspective of mind-body
This paper addresses a need to re-examine the mind-body dualism established since Descartes. Descartes' dualism has been regarded by modern philosophers as an extremely insufficient solution to the pr...
Zazen and cardiac variability
OBJECTIVE: This study examined the effects of "tanden breathing" by Zen practitioners on cardiac variability. Tanden breathing involves slow breathing into the lower abdomen. METHODS: Eleven Zen pract...
Taishô Shinshû Daizôkyô
This site contains the complete Taisho-era (1912-1926 CE) edition of the Chinese Tripiṭaka (Buddhist canon). All 85 volumes are available for download. Each volume lists the text titles it contains....
The Weaving of Mantra
Abe has attempted to give a new interpretation to Kūkai’s life and thought. Kūkai is said to have devised a new way of speaking about ritual that replaced a Confucian hegemony in which Buddhism w...
How Ajātaśatru Was Reformed: The Domestication of "Ajase" and Stories in Buddhist History
Creator’s Description: Ajātaśatru is famous in Buddhist literature for having killed his father, Bimbisāra, in order to come to the throne. This study traces the development of this stor...
Buddhism, death, and the feminine
The author investigates certain aspects of Buddhist psychology related to views of the body, death, and women, especially concerning issues of disgust and contamination based on insights from the psyc...
Freud's deshi : the coming of psychoanalysis to Japan
This paper presents an account of four Japanese men, three of whom had an audience with Freud and who, with differing experiences and ambitions, returned to Japan to practice and develop psychoanalysi...
Portal to Asian internet resources
A Title VI-funded project, the Portal to Asian Internet Resources (PAIR) offers more than six thousand professionally selected, cataloged, and annotated online resources in the humanities and social s...
Pacific World: Journal of the Institute of Buddhist Studies, Third Series, Num. 4
This special issue of Pacific World includes essays presented during a conference on Buddhism and cognitive science hosted by the Institute of Buddhist Studies and the Center for Theology and t...
Environmental problems and Buddhist ethics : from the perspective of the consciousness-only doctrine
The Buddhist concept of Mind-Only or Consciousness-Only provides a dynamic model of mental functioning wherein everything that appears to the individual ultimately arises from the mind or, in Sanskrit...
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