This survey article focuses on the object and scope of Zen Studies, and on trends visible since 1989. It argues that scholarship about Chan, Zen, Chan, Seon, and Thiên should be more closely integrated with Buddhist Studies, and that the boundaries of this field need to be expanded. Critical and epistemologically aware scholarship only emerged in the 1990s. Hence, scholars need to make a concer...

How do we see the world aright? This question is central to Iris Murdoch’s philosophy as well that of her great source inspiration, Simone Weil. For both them, not only our action, but very quality being depends on ability things they are, where vision a metaphor for immediate understanding and literal expression requirement train perception so get rid illusions. both, too, method achieve this ...

KamLAND-Zen searches for neutrinoless double-beta decay with an ultra-pure liquid-scintillator (LS) filled a custom-made clean nylon balloon. The primary backgrounds are radioactive impurities such as uranium and thorium series. To reduce them, we studied self-vetoing balloon-shaped vessel future upgrade program, “KamLAND2-Zen”. We selected Polyethylene-Naphthalate (PEN) film which emit fluores...

Immature gilts were administered per os with zearalenone (ZEN) at 40 μg/kg BW (group Z, n = 9), deoxynivalenol (DON) at 12 μg/kg BW (group D, n = 9), a mixture of ZEN and DON (group M, n = 9) or a placebo (group C, n = 9) over a period of six weeks. The pigs were sacrificed after one, three, or six weeks of the treatment (12 pigs per each time-point). Histological investigations revealed an inc...

In a recent study Garfield (1975) found that psychedelic drug users, Zen meditators, and practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism expressed more accepting attitudes toward death than did graduate students in both psychology and religion; also, that Zen and Tibetan Buddhists were more accepting than the drug users. Garfield suggested that states of altered awareness, achieved through the use of drugs o...