명상도서관

명상도서관

Meditation and mindfulness 자세히보기
  • 자료유형학술지논문
  • 저자명Batchelor, M.
  • 학회/출판사/기관명Taylor & Francis
  • 출판년도2011
  • 언어영어
  • 학술지명/학위논문주기CONTEMPORARY BUDDHISM
  • 발행사항Vol.12No.1[2011]_x000D_
  • ISBN/ISSN1463-9947
  • 소개/요약As words become more widely used, and especially as they become fashionable, they may often become more difficult to understand. One might think it would be the other way around, but this obfuscation of meaning has generally been the rule with the popularization of Buddhist vocabulary. While each had a precise technical meaning in its original context, terms like zen, yoga, karma, and nirvana can mean almost anything the modern writer wants them to mean. A similar trend may well be underway with mindfulness, and perhaps even with the more general word meditation. Understanding the sense in which these words are used in their original setting should prove to be a worthwhile undertaking as we see them applied in the current creative encounter between psychology and Buddhist thought.