2006

Allen E. Stairs

  • Associate Professor
  • University of Maryland, College Park
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Project

Multiple Perspectives on Vipassana Meditation: Experience, Psychology and Philosophy

Program

Contemplative Practice Fellowships

Department

Philosophy

Abstract

This project provides for creation of a course that looks at Vipassana meditation from three broad perspectives: experiential, psychological/scientific, and philosophical. Students learn to meditate and compare that experience with other contemplative exercises. They bring that experience to bear on questions about research on well-being and on perennial philosophical questions about the nature of the self.