Buddhism & Breath Summit Archives

Of the Last and Lasting Breath: Two Accounts of Mindfulness in the Face of Death Sentence

September 7, 2021January 17, 2022 Buddhism and Breath Summit Buddhism & Breath Summit

Abstract This presentation offers two insightful accounts of the (former) prisoners on the brink of their death sentence. This illuminates how both of them went

Winds in Transit: Experiencing Breath in Translation

September 7, 2021January 17, 2022 Buddhism and Breath Summit Buddhism & Breath Summit

Abstract Heinrich Jäschke, a nineteenth-century Moravian missionary to Ladakh, is mostly known amongst scholars of Tibet for his pioneering 1881 Tibetan–English Dictionary. In his entry

Breath: In the Body and Beyond

September 3, 2021January 17, 2022 Buddhism and Breath Summit Buddhism & Breath Summit body, breath

Abstract I start with a few phenomenological reflections on how easeful attention to breath resolves structures that constrict our experience of being. What does breath

Experiencing the Theravādin Buddhist Jhāna Absorptions through the Breath

September 3, 2021January 17, 2022 Buddhism and Breath Summit Buddhism & Breath Summit breath, jhana, meditation

Abstract In this presentation, the place of the Old School Buddhist form jhāna absorptions within Theravādin meditation practice is outlined, with a note on the

Creating Safe(r) Spaces for Mindfulness of Breath: Non-White Western Practitioners’ Experiences of Race, Racism and Whiteness in American Mindfulness

September 3, 2021January 17, 2022 Buddhism and Breath Summit Buddhism & Breath Summit America, breath, mindfulness, race

Abstract In Vipassana meditation practice, the first common object is the breath. By allowing the breath to be the focus of your awareness, one lets

Wind and Breath in Tibetan Thought: the Confluence of Tantra and Ayurveda

September 3, 2021January 17, 2022 Buddhism and Breath Summit Buddhism & Breath Summit Ayurveda, breath, Tantra, Tibet, wind

Abstract Breath and wind concepts are widespread in Asia, and the Tibetans inherited both Yogic and Tantric prāṇa and Ayurvedic vāta, both translated into Tibetan

Breath Energy and Healing in Japanese Esoteric Buddhism

September 3, 2021January 17, 2022 Buddhism and Breath Summit Buddhism & Breath Summit breath, energy, Esoteric Buddhism, Japan

Abstract This presentation briefly introduces the Japanese Vajrayana tradition of Shingon Buddhism and a few of its fundamental breathing techniques. It then summarizes some of

Troubled Breath: Windhorse, Smog, and the Stagnation of Vital Energies

September 3, 2021January 17, 2022 Buddhism and Breath Summit Buddhism & Breath Summit breath, energy, environment, wind

Abstract This presentation will describe how urban Mongolians navigate the capital city Ulaanbaatar’s chronic air pollution in relation to breath, clarity, bodily winds and purification.

Mind, Wind, and Heart: Tibetan Notions of Wind in Mental Health and Illness

September 3, 2021January 17, 2022 Buddhism and Breath Summit Buddhism & Breath Summit breath, mental illness, Tibet, wind

Abstract This presentation explores how Tibetan Buddhist and medical notions of the relationship between heart, wind and mind come together to explain the (dys)functioning of

Buddhist Wizards, Breath Meditation, and Superpowers

September 3, 2021January 17, 2022 Buddhism and Breath Summit Buddhism & Breath Summit breath, meditation, Myanmar, powers

Abstract Preached by the Buddha, prescribed by psychologists, and practiced by people from all faiths and walks of life, breath meditation is one of the

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