POSTER ABSTRACTS

Jennifer Baumgartner, Graduate Student, Wright State University Buddhist tenets suggest that well-being stems partially from self-compassion. We explored the role of self-compassion, as defined by self-patience … Read More

Utkarsh Chawla, Graduate Student, Nalanda University How does the ego or self arise? And how does it sustain throughout an individual’s life to impart a stable … Read More

Chelsea Hall, Graduate Student, Harvard University I would like to focus on Science and the Buddhist Revival at Serta Larung Gar, the site of my ethnographic … Read More

Eunyoung Hwang, Graduate Student, University of Chicago Divinity School My presentation shows how a neuro-phenomenological analysis would give a methodological frame, which enriches our reading of … Read More

Justin Kelley, Graduate Student, Rice University Much of the contemporary dialogue between Buddhism and science focuses on specific techniques of meditation and often fails to sufficiently … Read More

Brandon King, Graduate Student, University of California, Davis Recent years have seen a rise in research emphasizing compassion and altruism as salient outcomes of meditation training. … Read More

Vincent Laliberté, MD, MA, FRCPC, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, McGill University Buddhist meditation practices are being increasingly adapted to psychological and biomedical frameworks in the Western world … Read More

Katie Lenger, Graduate Student, University of Tennessee Low-income couples experience greater individual and relational stress compared to higher income couples. Since mindfulness reduces both individual and … Read More

Michael Lifshitz, Graduate Student, McGill University This poster will present a proposal for a mixed-methods research project that I will soon be undertaking. We will investigate … Read More

Janice Poss, Graduate Student, Claremont Graduate University How does Buddhism ‘go-green? St. Hildegard’s term ‘veriditas’, ‘greening’, can be applied to a tripartite interdisciplinary, interreligious dialogue between … Read More

Søren Buskov Poulsen, Graduate Student, University of Aarhus, Denmark On the basis of ethnographic fieldwork following the science education of Tibetan monk-scholars, I explore the hierarchy … Read More

Roxanne Rashedi, Graduate Student, University of California, Davis This poster draws from a randomized delayed treatment control study, which examined an 8-week yoga intervention (48 yoga … Read More

Adam Safron, Graduate Student, Northwestern University Enactivists have criticized traditional cognitive science as hamstrung by naïve Cartesian assumptions that mischaracterize minds as analyzable apart from the … Read More

Karl Schmid, Graduate Student, Emory University In the 8th century, Kamalaśīla wrote The Process of Meditation, a triad of practice manuals that became the seminal meditation … Read More

Frank Schumann, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception, Université Paris Descartes Given the mind–body connection implied in many mindfulness practices, it is surprising that mindfulness … Read More

Sean Smith, Graduate Student, University of Toronto In the past two decades, much ink has been spilled extolling the many ways in which Buddhist philosophy and … Read More

Zachary Walsh, Graduate Student, Claremont School of Theology This poster presents a project that I am working on at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) … Read More