Published in Tourism management
This study seeks to contribute knowledge of the Zen retreat experience unique to Buddhist tourism. The research setting is the Zen retreats found at the Donghua Zen Temple in China. This study examined feedback obtained from 520 tourists who stayed at Zen retreats. Zen retreat organizer insights were obtained through online discussions. This study ...
Published in SHS Web of Conferences
Buddhism is one of the fastest growing and popular religions in the West which connects people of different ages and social classes. The significant role in the historical transmission of Buddhism to the West and in shaping a distinctively Western form of Buddhism has been played by Western women. Many of these women have gained attention for chall...
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Published in Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science
The cultivation of compassion through meditation training is of increasing interest to scientists, health-care providers, educators, and policymakers as an approach to help address challenging personal and social issues. Yet people encounter critical inner psychological barriers to compassion that limit the effectiveness of compassion training-incl...
Schopenhauer afirma uma identidade entre o cristianismo o budismo e o bramanismo em relação à noção de culpabilidade humana e do mundo. Segundo o filósofo, as três religiões afirmam uma culpa que é carregada pelo ser humano devido à sua própria existência. Considerando o problema das fontes às quais Schopenhauer recorreu em seus estudos sobre as re...
This article responds to recent calls to consider how religion is defined and deployed in and about Myanmar. Discussing local Pentecostal efforts to evangelise to Buddhists in contemporary Yangon, it presents the encounter with the religious other as one ground from which definitions of religion might emerge. I show that, by taking up new opportuni...
Recent reforms in Myanmar afford local Christians new opportunities to more actively share the gospel with Buddhists. In doing so they enter into a public sphere tentatively emerging from five decades of censorship and other restrictions on expression. This article explores the place of misunderstanding and translation in encounters between evangel...
Published in Vienna Journal of East Asian Studies
The article expounds and compares two representative contemporary psychotherapeutic approaches which grew out of the Buddhist cultural heritage of Japan and have proved successful in dealing with mental disorders in both Eastern and Western countries. Morita and Naikan therapies are regularly discussed and evaluated together as their compatibility ...
Published in Family process
在亚洲，为了应对新冠肺炎危机，一位来自香港的家庭治疗师从个人和专业角度分享了她的经验和思考。从震惊和沉静到静思的时刻，笔者强调自己在东西方文化夹缝中挣扎的经历，前者是自己的文化之根，将她拉向一个更能接受问题的立场；后者是接受的西方教育，将她拉向一个更能解决问题的立场。这种挣扎在面对2019冠状病毒疫情时变得更加突出。结果来看，她的治疗方式多倾向于提出更多的问题，而不是提供给来访者答案。.
Published in Frontiers in psychology
Studies in the psychology and phenomenology of religious experience have long acknowledged similarities with various forms of psychopathology. Consequently, it has been important for religious practitioners and mental health professionals to establish criteria by which religious, spiritual, or mystical experiences can be differentiated from psychop...
