Generative Contemplation Symposium 2023 Video Proceedings: Nonduality

Generative Contemplation Symposium 2023 Video Proceedings: Nonduality

The Generative Contemplation Symposium was hosted by the Contemplative Sciences Center at the University of Virginia in April 2023. The following is the video proceedings along with searchable transcripts of Session II: Nondual Awareness Practices which focused on the subject-object dichotomy in meditation. Video proceedings from other sessions will be posted in subsequent posts. We…

CALL FOR PAPERS − SPECIAL ISSUE #5: Contemplation in Africana Traditions

CALL FOR PAPERS − SPECIAL ISSUE #5: Contemplation in Africana Traditions

The JCS Editors are delighted to announce a call for papers for a Special Issue devoted to Contemplation in Africana Traditions with guest editors Oludamini Ogunnaike (University of Virginia), Georgette Mulunda Ledgister (Harvard Divinity School), and Funlayo E. Wood (Harvard University). The African continent and diaspora have a rich heritage and strong contemporary practice of…

Generative Contemplation Symposium 2023 Video Proceedings: Attention

Generative Contemplation Symposium 2023 Video Proceedings: Attention

The Generative Contemplation Symposium was hosted by the Contemplative Sciences Center at the University of Virginia in April 2023. The following is the video proceedings along with searchable transcripts of Session I: Cognitive Effort and Control Practices which focused on issues of attention in meditation. Video proceedings from other sessions will be posted in subsequent…

NEW ARTICLE: A Study of Cheng Yi’s Quiet-Sitting Meditation

NEW ARTICLE: A Study of Cheng Yi’s Quiet-Sitting Meditation

“A Study of Cheng Yi’s Quiet-Sitting Meditation and Other Contemplative Practices in the Confucian Context”  Abstract: This study delves into Cheng Yi’s (程頤, 1033–1107) Ruist (Confucian) contemplative practices, addressing a gap in contemplative studies from a Ruist perspective. As a seminal thinker in the Cheng-Zhu lineage, Cheng Yi developed various practices, including quiet-sitting meditation, beholding,…

CALL FOR PAPERS − SPECIAL ISSUE #4: Philosophy and Contemplation in Tantric Buddhism
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CALL FOR PAPERS − SPECIAL ISSUE #4: Philosophy and Contemplation in Tantric Buddhism

The JCS Editors are delighted to announce a call for papers for a Special Issue devoted to Philosophy and Contemplation in Tantric Buddhism with guest editor Yaroslav Komarovski (University of Nebraska – Lincoln). This JCS Special Issue gives attention to intersections and relationships between philosophical and contemplative dimensions of Buddhist tantric traditions. While Buddhist philosophy and tantric…

CALL FOR PAPERS – SPECIAL ISSUE #3: Contemplative Ecology
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CALL FOR PAPERS – SPECIAL ISSUE #3: Contemplative Ecology

The JCS Editors are delighted to announce a call for papers for a Special Issue devoted to Contemplative Ecology with guest editors Douglas Christie (Loyola Marymount University), Simone Kotva (Cambridge University), Ariel Evan Mayse (Stanford University), and Devin Zuckerman (University of Virginia). The guest editors of this Special Issue recognize that the world is in…

BOOK REVIEW: The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Meditation

BOOK REVIEW: The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Meditation

Read the new Review of the Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Meditation (2022). Edited by Rick Repetti. Reviewed by Francisco Figueroa Medina (Kyoto University). The review outlines the contributions of this important edited volume on recent scholarship about the philosophy of meditation. Medina evaluates claims by contributing authors from a perspective of Buddhist meditation….

CONFERENCE RECAP: Generative Contemplation Symposium at University of Virginia, April 2023

CONFERENCE RECAP: Generative Contemplation Symposium at University of Virginia, April 2023

The Contemplative Sciences Center (CSC) at the University of Virginia (UVA) hosted its first Generative Contemplation Symposium in Charlottesville, Virginia from April 20-21, 2023. This gathering convened religious studies scholars, philosophers, cognitive neuroscientists, artists, and Buddhist practitioners to present their research, reflections, and theories on contemplative practices, and discuss the effects of contemplation on human…

The Contemplative Forum: Academic Listserv

The Contemplative Forum: Academic Listserv

Announcing the launch of the Contemplative Forum, an academic email listserv that facilitates scholarly exchanges in Contemplative Studies. Sign-up on the Contemplative Forum webpage. The forum promotes humanistic and transdisciplinary scholarship and research in Contemplative Studies, and connects a global community of scholars, researchers, practitioners, and educators to support field-building activities. The Contemplative Forum is free…