Toward the Integration of Meditation into Higher Education: A Review of Research (.pdf)
Prepared by Shauna L. Shapiro, Kirk Warren Brown, and John A. Astin. Edited by Maia Duerr
This paper reviews empirical evidence related to the use of meditation to facilitate the achievement of traditional educational goals, to help support student mental health under academic stress, and to enhance education of the “whole person.”
The Fruit of Silence (.pdf)
by Marilyn Nelson, Professor Emerita of English, University of Connecticut
Prof. Nelson describes her strategies, classroom exercises and experiences teaching meditation and poetry to cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
Meditation and Education: Buddhist India, Tibet and Modern America (.pdf)
by Robert A.F. Thurman, Je Tsongkhapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies, Columbia University
Prof. Thurman describes contemplative practices and meditation, and argues for the benefits of the inclusion of contemplation in Higher Education using examples from the Buddhist educational curricula of India and Tibet.
Meditation, Social Change, and Undergraduate Education (.pdf)
by Steven C. Rockefeller, Professor Emeritus of Religion, Middlebury College
Prof. Rockefeller explores ways in which the American undergraduate college can provide students with opportunities for understanding, appreciating, and practicing the meditative and contemplative disciplines.
The Contemplative Life and the Teaching of the Humanities (.pdf)
by Brain Stock, Professor of History and Comparative Literature, University of Toronto
Prof. Stock discusses how teachers of the humanities, even in religion departments, deal almost exclusively with “theoretical interests” and the analysis of texts, but no major branch of contemporary thinking in the humanities is actually meditative.END=NAM MO SAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).WORLD VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST ORDER=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY=THE EIGHTFOLD PATH.THICH CHAN TANH.THE MIND OF ENLIGHTMENT.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.11/1/2015.