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SUMMARY:Lunchbox Lecture with Flavio A. Geisshuesler cancelled and resched
 uled
DTSTART:20230124T111500Z
DTEND:20230124T124500Z
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DESCRIPTION:Unfortunately the Lunchbox Lecture by Flavio A. Geisshuesler m
 ust be cancelled. The event is rescheduled for a later this year.\nInforma
 tion about the new date will be published soon.\n\n\nTitle: Between Predic
 tion and Surprise: Tantric Buddhism and the New Paradigm of Meditation Res
 earch\n\nMeditation\, particularly in the form of mindfulness-based practi
 ces stemming from Buddhism\, has become a spectacularly popular phenomenon
  in our times. It is not only practiced by many strata of society\, but al
 so studied empirically as part of a multidisciplinary research field refer
 red to as “contemplative science” or “contemplative studies.” Amid
 st this enthusiasm\, it is quite easy to forget that this seeming familiar
 ity with meditation is hiding a surprising fact\, namely that our culture
 ’s appreciation of these Buddhist contemplative practices is rather supe
 rficial. This relative immaturity has given rise to critical voices\, both
  amongst students of the cultural-historical forms of meditation\, as well
  as amongst scientists investigating the cognitive-psychological effects o
 f the practice.\n\nScholars of Buddhism not only caution that the modern c
 oncept of mindfulness diverges from classical definitions of meditation\, 
 but also point out that it represents a relatively minor practice amongst 
 the many contemplative exercises performed by Buddhists throughout the age
 s. Neuroscientists\, in turn\, have gradually started to shift their inves
 tigation to include other techniques\, allowing them to investigate the ro
 le of memory\, perception\, imagination\, or arousal in contemplative prac
 tices.\n\nThis project capitalizes on these existing discourses and brings
  them together in a revolutionary manner to make sense of meditation in it
 s manifold dimensions. More specifically\, the project offers an interdisc
 iplinary study of meditation practices in India and Tibet by moving dialec
 tically in between a classical historical-philological analysis of Sanskri
 t and Tibetan texts\, on the one hand\, and emergent theories from the cog
 nitive sciences\, on the other.\n\nThis methodology gives me the instrumen
 ts necessary to achieve this study’s two primary objectives: 1) to prese
 nt “predictive coding” as a unified theoretical framework that can be 
 applied to the bewildering range of different contemplative exercises foun
 d in Buddhism (and beyond)\; 2) to apply the predictive coding paradigm to
  the context of Indo-Tibetan tantra in order to outline a taxonomy of key 
 practices found in this cultural-historical context.
LOCATION:CERES-Palais\, Raum "Ruhrpott" (4.13)
URL:https://ceres.rub.de/de/events/lunchbox-lecture-flavio-a-geisshuesler/
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