This article explores Japanese attitudes about brain death and organ transplantation.  First, ancient burial customs and death-related rituals associated with Shinto and Buddhism are examined.  Next, co...

Territorial Characteristics of the Archaic Zhang-zhung Paleocultural Entity: A Comparative Analysis of Archaeological Evidence and Popular Bon Literary Sources

In this paper, the author delineates the territorial extent of the pre-Buddhist paleocultural zone traditionally known as Zhang-zhung, by examining the geographic distribution of its monumental remain...

Mindfulness-based stress reduction in relation to quality of life, mood, symptoms of stress and levels of cortisol, dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEAS) and melatonin in breast and prostate cancer outpatients

This medical study looked at the effects of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MSBR) on the mood, quality of life, levels of stress and cortisol, dehydroepiandrosterone-sulfate (DHEAS) and melatonin ...

There has been in recent years a growing interest in the similarities between Buddhism and the principles and practice of behaviour modification.  Mikulas, for example, has pointed out many similaritie...

Chaos and the way of Zen : psychiatric nursing and the 'uncertainty principle'

The biological sciences have been dominated by 'classicist' science-predicated on the post-Enlightenment belief that a real world exists, which behaves according to notions of causality and consistenc...

Western thought has dominated scientific development for a long time, and nursing has not escaped the influence of such ideology.  Nurse scholars, in an attempt to fit the dominant scientific ideology,...