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Transcultural Psychiatry· 2014Q1

Is mindfulness Buddhist? (and why it matters)

Robert H. Sharf

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Modern mindfulness, promoting "bare attention" for therapeutic effects, is rooted in 20th-century Burmese Buddhist reforms, not traditional Theravāda doctrine, and mirrors historical innovations in Chinese Zen and Tibetan Dzogchen.

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Field: Religious studies

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