An interview by Sumeet Kumar with Buddhist monk Adesh on the role of mindfulness in healing. Bhante Adesh shares insights on the role of a monk in Buddhist spiritual care, on the differences between healing practices in Buddhism and biomedicine, and on his work with people experiencing advanced life-limiting illnesses. He also talks about the importance of deeply listening to others as the first step in working as a healer, and on the role of mindfulness in healing.
Sumeet Kumar is an MA student at the University of Toronto.
The Footnotes series is produced at the University of Toronto, in Canada.
A summary preview of “Introduction” and Chapter 1, “Buddhist Modernism from Asia to America” from Ann Gleig's book, American Dharma: Buddhism Beyond Modernity (Yale...
This conversation will consider Seng Kan Cheung, a contemporary Chinese American religious healer who uses qigong, reiki, and Buddhist spells. He shares these practices...
Dr. Sean Hillman discusses caregiving work and his research on end-of-life care in India through the lenses of religious studies, bioethics and the law....