Mindfulness @ The Open Buddhist University

A journal dedicated to advancing English-language research on Mindfulness from a diverse set of perspectives.

Articles Featured in our Library:

Phenomenological Fingerprints of Four Meditations: Differential State Changes in Affect, Mind-Wandering, Meta-Cognition, and Interoception Before and After Daily Practice Across 9 Months of Training (2016) – Bethany E. Kok and Tania Singer

Self-Compassion and Psychological Distress in Adolescents: A Meta-Analysis (2017) – Imogen C. Marsh, Stella W. Y. Chan, and Angus MacBeth

Inter-Brain Synchronization in the Practice of Tibetan Monastic Debate (2018) – Marieke K. van Vugt, Joshua Pollock, Bryce Johnson, Kalden Gyatso, Ngawang Norbu and others

Meditation-Induced Near-Death Experiences: a 3-Year Longitudinal Study (2018) – William Van Gordon, Edo Shonin, Thomas J. Dunn, David Sheffield, Javier García Campayo and others

The present study recruited 12 advanced Buddhist meditators and compared their meditation-induced near-death experiences (MI-NDEs) against two other meditation practices in the same participant group. Changes in the content and profundity of the MI-NDE were assessed longitudinally over a 3-year period. Findings demonstrated that compared to the control conditions, the MI-NDE prompted significantly greater increases in profundity, mysticism and non-attachment. Furthermore, participants demonstrated significant increases in NDE profundity across the 3-year study period.

An Exploration of Formal and Informal Mindfulness Practice and Associations With Wellbeing (2018) – Kelly Birtwell, Kate Williams, Harm van Marwijk, Christopher J. Armitage, and David Sheffield

Self-Compassion and Bedtime Procrastination: An Emotion Regulation Perspective (2018) – Fuschia M. Sirois, Sanne Nauts, and Danielle S. Molnar

Open Monitoring and Mindfulness (2019) – Bhikkhu Anālayo

The Role of Mindfulness in the Cultivation of Absorption (2019) – Bhikkhu Anālayo

Longitudinal Effects of a 2-Year Meditation and Buddhism Program on Well-Being, Quality of Life, and Valued Living (2019) – Brooke M. Smith, Clarissa W. Ong, Tyson S. Barrett, Ellen J. Bluett, Timothy A. Slocum and others

A Brief History of Buddhist Absorption (2019) – Bhikkhu Anālayo

The Myth of McMindfulness (2020) – Bhikkhu Anālayo

The Centrality of Mindfulness-Related Meditations in Early Buddhist Discourse (2020) – Bhikkhu Anālayo

Featured in the course, " The Majjhima Nikāya"

Somatics of Early Buddhist Mindfulness and How to Face Anxiety (2020) – Bhikkhu Anālayo

Dependent Arising and Interdependence (2020) – Bhikkhu Anālayo

Why Do People Begin to Meditate and Why Do They Continue? (2020) – Peter Sedlmeier and Jan Theumer