Attention & contemplation
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Buddhist traditions
A family of traditions concerned with suffering, impermanence, ethical action, and paths of liberation.
South · East · Southeast Asia · 5 highlights↗Daoist traditions
Classical texts, later religious communities, and practices concerning the Dao, naturalness, and skilful action.
China · 5 highlights↗Sufi traditions
Diverse Islamic paths of devotion, remembrance, discipline, and ethical refinement.
Africa · West Asia · South Asia · 5 highlights↗Christian contemplative traditions
Diverse Christian forms of prayer, silence, scriptural meditation, and disciplined attention.
Africa · West Asia · Europe · global · 5 highlights↗Stoicism
A Hellenistic school concerned with virtue, judgment, and how to live well amid uncertainty.
Ancient Greece · Rome · 5 highlights↗Confucian traditions
An evolving family of ethical and political traditions concerning learning, relationships, and good government.
China · Korea · Japan · Vietnam · 5 highlights↗Neo-Confucian cultivation
Neo-Confucian thinkers developed new accounts of pattern, human nature, study, and moral cultivation.
China · later East Asia · 5 highlights↗Chan Buddhism
Chan developed in China as a Buddhist school emphasising embodied awakening, teacher student encounters, and new uses of language and story.
China · East Asian transmission · 5 highlights↗Pure Land Buddhist traditions
Pure Land Buddhist traditions centre devotion to Amitābha or Amida and hopes of rebirth in a Pure Land.
China · Japan · wider East Asia · 5 highlights↗Korean Seon Buddhism
Seon is a Korean Buddhist tradition related historically to Chinese Chan.
Korea · 5 highlights↗Japanese Zen Buddhism
Japanese Zen developed from Chinese Chan within Japanese Buddhist history.
Japan · global communities · 6 highlights↗Tibetan Buddhist philosophy and practice
Tibetan Buddhist traditions combine philosophical debate, ethics, monastic and lay life, devotion, and contemplative training.
Tibet · Himalayan communities · diaspora · 5 highlights↗Won Buddhism
Won Buddhism began in Korea in the twentieth century through Sotaesan's teaching.
Korea · global communities · 5 highlights↗Advaita Vedānta: inquiry into nonduality
Advaita Vedānta interprets the Upaniṣads as teaching a nondual reality, brahman, and asks how the apparently separate self relates to it.
India · 6 highlights↗Madhyamaka: the middle way and emptiness
Madhyamaka argues that things lack an independent, fixed nature because they arise through conditions.
India · Tibet · East Asia · 6 highlights↗Yogācāra: experience and the making of a world
Yogācāra examines how consciousness, habits, and interpretation shape experience.
India · East Asia · Tibet · 6 highlights↗Kyoto School philosophy
The Kyoto School is a twentieth century Japanese philosophical conversation, beginning with Nishida Kitarō, in dialogue with Buddhist and Western thought.
Japan · 5 highlights↗Sāṃkhya: discernment and the changing world
Classical Sāṃkhya distinguishes puruṣa, conscious witness, from prakṛti, the source of changing mental and material processes.
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