June 3-6, 2025, Zhichenkhar, Thimphu, Bhutan
Venerable Dr. Phra Anil Sakya
Vice Dean and Lecturer at the Faculty of Sociology, Mahamakut Buddhist University
Prof. Pierre Philippot
A process-based approach to mindfulness training for mental health
Prof. Tania Singer
A Social Neuroscience Perspective on Meditation Research: Cultivating Prosocial Motivation, Care and Compassion
Prof. David L. McMahan
Rethinking Meditation: Buddhist meditative practices in ancient and modern worlds
Dr Justin Brody
Neuro-symbolic AI and the Two Truths
Khentrul Konchok Tenzin
Enlightenment in the Bible Belt: The Integration and Evolution of Esoteric Buddhism and Mindfulness Meditation in the American South
Luís Barbosa, PhD
Cultivating Nature Citizenship through Mindfulness in Society 5.0
Prof. Geoffrey Brian Samuel
Why Did Rtsa rlung Become Part of Vajrayāna Longevity Practice?
Dr. Joseph John Loizzo
Vajrayana Neuropsychiatry: An Embodied Contemplative Science for Transforming Individual and Collective Trauma into Inclusive, Embodied Global Flourishing
Bodhisattva Swami Anand Arun
Religion Reimagined: Osho’s Path to Joyful & Scientific Spirituality
Tulku Sangye Tenzin
Ratna Lingpa’s Contemplative Vision: In the Seminal Heart of the Luminous Expanse
Dr. Rodolfo Jesus Gonzalez Paz
Sowarigpa and Nanotechnology
Juan R. Naupari
The Impact of Breathwork Meditation on Personal Spiritual and Psychological Well-being
Julian AJ. Schott
Exploring Tukdam at the Nexus of Tradition and Modernity
Lama Tromtsal Dorje
Pyrrho, the First European Buddhist, and His Hidden Legacy of Meditation Within Western Philosophy
Keith A. Zimmerman
Vision – Perception – Reality
Dr Amelia Hall
The Warrior Exam at Naropa University: A Contemplative Model for Deep Learning and Authentic Presence
Ven. Kesara
The Effectiveness of Mindfulness Vipassanā Meditation Guided by Rathavinīta Sutta: Establishing Long-term Emotional Well-being and Happiness for Meditation Practitioners
Prof. Barbara J. Lehman
Buddhism, Mindfulness, and Mortality Salience
Dr. Marbella P. Peña
Listening to the voice of adolescents: Co-creating, implementing, and evaluating a mindfulness-based program for adolescents
Marcus Fink
Spiritual Running – from ancient knowledge to modern science
Prof. Miguel A. Ortega
Meditation under the Religious Clauses of the American Constitution
Dr. Nadav Amir
A Dharmakīrtian model of relevance realization in cognitive agents
Dr. Nashalla G. Nyinda
Clarifying Meditations Benefits through Subtle Body Anatomy
Dr. Parakh N. Hoon
Shambhala Training as an Experiential Gateway to Vajrayana: Bridging Cultural Tradition and Contemporary Practice
Peter F. Makela
For the Benefit of All Beings: Carving the Manis of the 10th Bhakha Tulku Rinpoche
Sasha A. Manu
Transcendental Outcomes: Developing a Standards-Based Framework for Teaching Buddhist Contemplative Practices to Adolescents
Dr. Takahiko Kameyama
Analyzing East Asian Buddhist Philosophy from a New Perspective: The “Body Mandala” in Japanese Esoteric Buddhism
Yi, San
The Rise of Vajrayana Meditation, Practices, and Teachings in Contemporary Korea
Dr. Inga Pogosyan
Understanding Rlung and Channels for Effective Meditation: A Tibetan Medical Approach
Dr. Ian A. Baker
‘Blazing Wisdom’: Exploring the Interface of Neuroscience and Caṇḍalī–gTummo Yoga
Hyung Jin An
On Carl Jung’s interpretation of the Amitāyur-dhyāna Sūtra and its connection to his analytical psychology, highlighting the relationship between Western psychology and Eastern Buddhist meditation practices.
Prof. Dr. George van Driem
Tea and Mindfulness
Bret Carr
Toward a Scalable Definition of Sentience: Merging Light, Data, and Tri-Kaya Consciousness in Emerging Intelligence System
Amalia Hana Rubin
Tantric Meditation, Social Media, and the Impact of Protestant Thought
Dr Jampa Chophel
Identification of three year and three forthnight
Katarina Stanisavljevic
Five-Elements Meditation for Social-Emotional Development
Kunkyab Pasang
གླིང་སྒྲུང་དུ་མངོན་པའི་གེ་སར་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་སྒོམ་སྒྲུབ་སྐོར་ལ་ཐོག་མར་དཔྱད་པ།
Ven Lama Rinchen Tsultrim
བོན་ལུགས་སུ་གསང་སྔགས་སྤྱི་སྤུངས་”བསྙེན་སྒྲུབ་ལས་གསུམ་”གྱི་ནང་ཚན་བསྙེན་པའི་གཞི་མ་སྒོ་དགུའི་སྐོར་གྱི་སྙན་ཞུ།
Dr. Le Thanh Binh
Application of Education and Therapy – An Integrated Approach of Meditation and Ethical Education for Teenagers in Vietnam
Dr. Rev Divulapelesse W. Thero
Overcoming Hatred Through Mettā Meditation
Dr Matteo Preabianca
Meditation Across Time and Culture: Understanding Context to Illuminate Meaning
Pok Man Siu
Meditation in Penitential Rituals: Practices of Chinese Tiantai School
Ven Phuntsok Tsunzin
གསང་སྔགས་ལམ་སྒོར་འཇུག་བྱེད་དཔྱད་པ་མུ་ཏིག་འཕྲེང་བ།
Dechen Wangmo
Doha and Nyam Gur in Vajrayana Buddhism: Songs of Realization as a Medium for Mahamudra Meditation and Teaching
Francis V. Tiso
Exploring the Open Space between “Sense Making” and Post-Mortem Bodily Signs of Attainment
Dr. Michael Sheedy
How Virtual Reality (VR) technology is being used to simulate and study traditional Himalayan Buddhist meditation practices
Kali Nyima Cape
Reclaiming Mindfulness
Karma Lhazom
Mindfulness in Bhutanese Life: Preserving the Yogic Roots of Bhutan’s Contemplative Tradition
Dr. Aniket Mahapatra
Tantric Pathways to Mindfulness: A Comparative Study of Vajrayāna and Śākta Tantra in Science and Meditation
Adrian N. Baker III
Remembering our True Nature: A Nondual Contemplative Approach to Ayahuasca in the Light of Dzogchen
Prof. Jacob P. Dalton
Dzogchen vs. Kālacakra: Patrul Namkha Jikmé on Meditative Visions how ordinary beings can perceive saṃbhogakāya forms, comparing this with tantric practices from the Guhyasamāja and Kālacakra traditions.
Gwenaëlle Bresmal
Exploring the Links Between Mindfulness and Identity Construction in Adolescents – A Delphi Approach
Eleanor Siobhan Costa
Vajrayana and New Approaches to Mindfulness in British Social Work
Jiazi Chen
Meditating on the Three Jewels: Ren Jie’s (1920–2011) Interpretations and Pedagogical Approach
Dr. Christopher P. Senn
Artificial Intelligence and Dharma Transmission: A Mind-Machine Interface for Buddhist Enlightenment
Dr Asa Hershoff
Elemental Psychology—Rediscovering Inner Wisdom
Dr. Alan George De Renzy Channer
Buddhist meditation as an enrichment of Christian spiritual practice
Ven Shi Chejing (Wu Jing)
The Perfect Penetration Method of the Ear Faculty in the Śūraṃgama Sūtra: from Turmoil to Peace
Dr. Tsewang Gyaltsen
གྲུབ་ཆེན་བཞད་པ་རྡོ་རྗེས་སྤུངས་ཐང་བདེ་ཆེན་ཕོ་བྲང་ནས་དབང་ལུང་གསན་བསམ་དང་གྲུབ་པ་ཐོབ་པའི་ངོ་མཚར་བའི་ལོ་རྒྱུས་དང། ལ་དྭགས་ལྷོ་འབྲུག་ལུགས་ཀྱི་དགོན་སྡེ་ཀུན་གྱི་ནང་སྒོམ་སྒྲུབ་ཉམས་སུ་ལེན་བཞིན་པའི་སྐོར།།
Christopher D. Candland
Silent Communion in Quaker Worship
Deskyong Angmo
The meditational dimension of Bardo ThosGrol Chenmo for the Living
Dr. Sarah Anne Stolte
Blanket Songs: Indigenous Sound, Ritual, and Contemplative Practices
Dr. Maggie Zhao
Mindfulness for Happiness and Harmony: Bridging Buddhist Philosophy and Psychological Science
Ven. Prof. Dr. Phra Medhivajarapundit (Hansa Dhammahaso)
Insight Meditation: A Mindful Way to Cultivate True Happiness
Harsha Nagaraju
Exploring the gradual evolution of a mindfulness aesthetic through the metaphors of protection, wisdom, and perfection in the sequential depiction of the Trilokyavijaya, Dharmadhātu Vāgiśvara Mañjuśrī, and Prajñāpāramitā mandalas on the murals of the 11th-century Alchi Monastery in Ladakh.
Indrani Laskar
Mindfulness among school children
Stanzin Lotus
The practice of ‘The Four Placements of Mindfulness’ in Mahāyāna tradition with the Emphasis on Wisdom of Emptiness
Steve Eli Jellenc
Experience, Knowledge, and Theory : Translating Phenomena and Epistemologies across Vajrayāna and Contemplative Science
Tanzin Tandup
An Analytical Study on Thukdam: A Journey Beyond Death
Tsewang Lamo
The Mental and Cognitive Impact of Determining the Correct Object of Negation: A Comparative Analysis of Svātantrika and Prāsaṅgika Mādhyamaka.
Ven Ten Tsok
བོན་ཆོས་གཉིས་ཀའི་གསང་སྔགས་སྤྱི་བཞད།
Tenzin Minkyi
Investigating Post-Mortem Consciousness: Dharmakīrti’s Perspective and Scientific Insight on the Stream of Consciousness.
Anushka Akwaththage
Mindfulness-Based Therapeutic Interventions in Mental Health
Dr. Jeevani Herath
Teacher Burnout: Meditation as a Remedy for Sri Lankan Teachers
Dr. Ritu Verma
Towards Mindful Development: Experiences of Wellbeing and Environmental Consciousness in African and Himalayan Cultural Contexts
Myint Myint Aung
Breaking the Pain Cycle: The Neuroscience, Psychological, and Cognitive Insights on Meditation
S. Gabriela T. Platas
Neural Correlates of Contemplative Sleep Practices
Sirinanda Bandagiriye
Mindful Eating: Bridging Ancient Wisdom, Scientific Research, and Holistic Well-Being
Ven.Chipamong Chowdhury (Bhante Revata)
“Alone” and “Together” in the Path of the Buddha
Dr. Sudip Patra
Quantum Cognition Approach: Implications for Non-Local and Contextual Reality
Dasho Karma Ura
Illuminating the Life of Yeshey Tshogyel in Drawings
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