Jh¿na Consciousness: Buddhist Meditation in the Age of Neuroscience

An interdisciplinary deep dive into Buddhist jh¿na meditation and how it can transform our understanding of self and consciousness



States of profound meditative concentration, the jh¿nas are central to the earliest Buddhist teachings. For centuries in Southeast Asia, oral yog¿vacara (yoga practitioner) lineages kept traditional jh¿na practices alive, but in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, reforms in Therav¿da Buddhism downplayed the importance of jh¿na in favor of vipassan¿ (insight)...