Overview
- Comprehensive and authoritative introduction to mindfulness across many interrelated disciplines
- Explores mindfulness as a field of research as well as personal practice and path to awakening
- Details conceptual, clinical, cognitive, neuroscience perspectives of mind-body therapies
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This major reference work offers the most comprehensive and authoritative coverage of mindfulness, Buddhism, and other contemplative practices across many interrelated disciplines. It provides encyclopedic coverage of the growing field of mindfulness as a personal practice, a path to awakening, a field of research – conceptual, clinical, cognitive, neuroscience, and mind-body therapies. Mindfulness is contextualized within wisdom traditions, especially Buddhism. It covers the major Buddhist traditions, providing the most important terms, concepts, practices, and texts based on canonical Buddhist languages and traditions—Pali, Sanskrit, Tibetan, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. It addresses contemplative practices across all wisdom traditions, ancient and modern. Extensive cross-referencing allows readers to find concepts, terms, practices, and key authors. As a living major reference work, the encyclopedia provides a single source of broad-spectrum knowledge on mindfulness, Buddhism, andother contemplative practices.
Major sections of coverage include:
- Mindfulness
- Buddhism
- Contemplative Practices
- Wisdom Traditions
- Practices, Research, and Applications
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Keywords
- Addiction, recovery, mindfulness
- Affect, temperament, mindfulness
- Arahant, awakening Buddhism, mindfulness
- Avoidance, perception, mindfulness
- Bodhi, enlightenment, nirvana, mindfulness
- Centering prayer, mindfulness
- Compassion cultivation therapy, mindfulness
- Decentering, discursive thoughts, mindfulness
- Depression, anxiety, stress, fatigue, mindfulness
- Equanimity, gratitude, metta, prajna, paramita, mindfulness
- Meditation, self-compassion, mindfulness
- Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, MBCT
- Mindfulness-based stress reduction, MBSR
- Neurofeedback, wearable electronic devices, mindfulness
- Psychological flexibility, wisdom, mindfulness
- Resilience, negative life events, mindfulness
- Shamatha, insight, traquility, mindfulness
- Stream-entry, Dharma, mindfulness
- Vipassana, trait, state, mindfulness
- Zen, mechanism of change, mindfulness
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Nirbhay N. Singh, Ph.D., is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Health Behavior at the Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University, Augusta, Georgia, USA. Before his current appointment, he was a Professor of Psychiatry, Pediatrics and Psychology at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine and Director of the Commonwealth Institute for Family Studies, Richmond, Virginia. His research interests include mindfulness, behavioral and psychopharmacological treatments of individuals with disabilities, and assistive technology for supporting individuals with neurodevelopmental disabilities. He has more than 750 publications, including 26 books. He is the Editor in Chief of two international journals: Mindfulness, and Advances in Neurodevelopmental Disorders, and Editor of three book series: Mindfulness in Behavioral Health, Evidence-Based Practice in Behavioral Health, and Springer Series on Child and Family Studies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Encyclopedia of Mindfulness, Buddhism, and Other Contemplative Practices
Editors: Nirbhay N. Singh
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90465-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Springer Reference Behavioral Science and Psychology, Reference Module Humanities and Social Sciences, Reference Module Business, Economics and Social Sciences
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-90465-4Due: 27 June 2024
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