Meditation research, past, present, and future: Perspectives from the Nalanda contemplative science tradition

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1307, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 43-54

  Loizzo, Joseph ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Compassion training; Contemplative science; Meditation; Mindfulness; Nalanda; Polyvagal theory

Indexed keywords

APPLIED RESEARCH; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FUTUROLOGY; HEALING; HISTORY; HUMAN; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; MEDITATION; RESEARCH; SCIENCE; SELF HEALING;

COMPASSION TRAINING; CONTEMPLATIVE SCIENCE; MEDITATION; MINDFULNESS; NALANDA; POLYVAGAL THEORY;

BUDDHISM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; EMPATHY; HUMANS; INDIA; MEDITATION; MIND-BODY RELATIONS, METAPHYSICAL; MINDFULNESS; NEUROSCIENCES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIBET;

EID: 84892479736     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/nyas.12273     Document Type: Article

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