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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction as a Post-Buddhist Tradition of Meditation Practice
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- 자료유형학위논문
- 저자명Ville Husgafvel
- 학회/출판사/기관명University of Helsinki
- 출판년도2023
- 언어영어
- 학술지명/학위논문주기Doctor of Philosophy
- 발행사항
- ISBN/ISSN978-951-51-8893-9
- 소개/요약This article-based doctoral dissertation explores the Buddhist influence on the mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) programme and the historical-ideological continuity between Buddhist modernism and contemporary mindfulness. The analysis is based on textual materials, ethnographic data from MBSR teacher training in Finland, and a research interview with the founder of the programme Jon Kabat-Zinn. Through the combination of both ethnographic and textual data, the dissertation shows that exclusive attention to either alone would result in an incomplete image of the MBSR tradition.I identify methodological weaknesses in previous mindfulness research and suggest ways of moving forward. Instead of discussing ‘Buddhism’ and ‘Buddhist mindfulness’ in essentialist or sectarian terms, we need to focus our analysis of Buddhist influence on specific Buddhist teachers, texts, and lineages that are relevant to our research question and object of study. Also, the differences between authoritative texts and lived practices should be accounted for in our treatment of both Buddhist meditation and contemporary mindfulness.In light of my analysis, MBSR appears as a non-dual approach to meditation with significant influences from contemporary Zen, Vipassanā, and Tibetan Buddhist lineages and doctrinal developments in Indian and East Asian Mahāyāna Buddhism. The detailed articulation of signature Mahāyāna influences is a needed correction to the dominant Theravāda Buddhist bias in previous mindfulness research. The existential, ontological, and ethical dimensions of the MBSR programme reveal the shortcomings of strictly instrumental-therapeutic depictions of contemporary mindfulness. However, in the ethnographic data from MBSR teacher training these dimensions and the non-dual aspects of the programme are less pronounced.I build on current research on Buddhist modernism to develop ‘post-Buddhism’ as a more mature theoretical concept in the study of religion and Buddhist studies. I argue that the MBSR programme both continues and radicalizes the principal cultural processes of Buddhist modernism and is best understood as a post-Buddhist tradition of meditation practice with characteristic post-secular features. The concept of post-Buddhism denotes a radical form of detraditionalization, which maintains a perceived ‘essence’ of Buddhist teachings and practices but rejects a Buddhist self-identity and dependence on established Buddhist institutions, lineages, and authorities.
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