Geoffrey Samuel
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 111159 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Geoffrey Samuel |
| PRENOMES | Geoffrey |
| SOBRENOME | Samuel |
| ASSINATURA | SAMUEL G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5563-871X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 73 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 183 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 71 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1976 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Water Beings
The Neuroscience of Tantric Practice
This chapter is primarily concerned with tantric practice as spiritual training or self-cultivation within Buddhist and Hindu traditions. This process involves cognitive, emotional, and physical aspects of an integrated body-mind, and it appears to enable the achievement of exceptional levels of human ability. The autonomic nervous system (ANS) is a key part of this process. A series of neuroscientific studies has clarified the role of the neural…
Creating the Universe
Creating the Universe: Depictions of the Cosmos in Himalayan Buddhism, by Eric Huntington. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019. xx + 283 pp., $65 (hb). ISBN: 9780295744063
Interdisciplinarity
Has film studies anything to offer comparative law? The idea that film studies might contribute to comparative legal studies will no doubt be met with some skepticism. Such skepticism is not unreasonable, especially given what some might consider, possibly wrongly, a rather weak theory tradition associated with cinema studies. However, over the last decades, there has been movement in legal studies—and not just with respect to comparative law—tow…
Obituary
Unbalanced Flows in the Subtle Body
Much of what Western medicine classifies as psychiatric illness is understood by Tibetan thought as associated with imbalance of rlung (wind, breath). Rlung has a dual origin in Indian thought, combining elements from Ayurvedic medicine and Tantric Buddhism. Tibetan theories of rlung seem to correspond in significant ways with Western concepts of the autonomic nervous system (ANS), and Western medicine too has associated psychiatric issues with A…
Introduction to Special Section of Journal of Religion and Health, ‘Mental Health, The Mind and Consciousness
What is the impact of culture on legal theory
What is the Impact of Culture on Legal Theory
Vision Statement of Iastam as a Transdisciplinary Forum
The 2017 Basham Medal Lectures
This report contains three lectures given during acceptance ceremonies by awardees of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Asian Medicine’s prestigious Basham Award. While they concern episodes in the modern history of Japanese medicine, the contemporary medicine of the Yao national minority in China, and ancient Chinese self-cultivation practices, all three engage in deeper reflections on the craft and methods of the histor…
Mindfulness Within the Full Range of Buddhist and Asian Meditative Practices
Manufacturing Tibetan Medicine
Martin Saxer is one of a number of researchers (others include Sienna Craig, Barbara Gerke, Theresia Hofer, and Stephan Kloos) who in recent years have made Sowa Rigpa or “Tibetan Medicine” a parti
Janet Gyatso, Being Human in a Buddhist World
Janet Gyatso is well known among Tibetanists for her writings on visionary lamas and on gender issues in Tibetan Buddhism and culture. Her new book develops a more recent interest in Tibetan medical literature, first signalled through a widely-cited article from 2004. 1 That article introduced two Tibetan medical scholars central to this new book, Zurkharwa Lodrö Gyelpo (1509–1579) and Desi Sangyé Gyatso (1653–1705), the regent ( desi ) for the ‘…
Legal Reasoning and Argumentation
The contemporary mindfulness movement and the question of nonself
Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT), and other "mindfulness"-based techniques have rapidly gained a significant presence within contemporary society. Clearly these techniques, which derive or are claimed to derive from Buddhist meditational practices, meet genuine human needs. However, questions are increasingly raised regarding what these techniques meant in their original context(s), how they ha…
Between Buddhism and Science, Between Mind and Body
Buddhism has been seen, at least since the Theravāda reform movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as particularly compatible with Western science. The recent explosion of Mindfulness therapies have strengthened this perception. However, the 'Buddhism' which is being brought into relation with science in the context of the Mindfulness movement has already undergone extensive rewriting under modernist influences, and many …
Monastic and Lay Traditions in North-Eastern Tibet
In recent years, the Sino-Tibetan frontier regions have attracted increasing scholarly interest. The region of Rebkong in Qinghai province is of particular significance because of its unique location on the Sino-Tibetan borderland, its multi-ethnic population and its complex religious history, which incorporates both large Geluk monasteries and significant Nyingma and Bonpo lay tantric communities. Covering the nineteenth century to the present, …
Buddhism, International Relief Work, and Civil Society
Natural disasters in Asian countries have brought global attention to the work of local Buddhist communities and groups. Here, the contributors examine local Buddhist communities and international Bud
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
The Tibetan Book of the Dead: A Biography. By Donald S. Lopez, Jr. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011), xi + 173 pp. $19.95/£13.95 cloth. The so-called Tibetan Book of the Dead, or Ba
Introduction
This introduction to the special issue of EASTS begins with a survey of recent social scientific work on medicine and healing in Tibetan and Himalayan societies. The author considers the specificity of the Tibetan encounter with biomedicine in comparison with that experienced by other traditions of Asian medicine and introduces both the traditional Tibetan medical system (Sowa Rigpa) and the wider context of approaches to healing of which it form…
Religion and the Subtle Body in Asia and the West
Authenticating Tibet
Reading Against the Orientalist Grain
Reading Against the Orientalist Grain: Performance and Politics Entwined with a Buddhist Stain, by Syed Jamil Ahmed. Kolkata, India: Anderson Printing House Pvt. Ltd. (www.andersonindia.com ), 2008. xv + 357pp. ISBN: 978-8-190671-90-3. Rs. 1500
Introduction
Civilized Shamans
Civilized Shamans
Miraculous Voices
Ritual sounds produced by the secret men's cult of the Ilahita Arapesh (East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea) evoke feelings which, even to the operators, are mysterious in perceptual origin and therefore iconically apposite to, and validating of, the mysterious "spirit voices" these sounds are claimed literally to be. This paper examines the proposition that certain sounds affect the central nervous system in a manner that arouses feelings of t…
Religion and the Subtle Body in Asia and the West
Islamic piety and masculinity
The contemporary mindfulness movement and the question of nonself
Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT), and other "mindfulness"-based techniques have rapidly gained a significant presence within contemporary society. Clearly these techniques, which derive or are claimed to derive from Buddhist meditational practices, meet genuine human needs. However, questions are increasingly raised regarding what these techniques meant in their original context(s), how they ha…
Comparative Law and Jurisprudence
This article will propose that comparative law as a discipline should now consolidate itself as an independent subject with its own internal structure. This is not to say that its teachers and professors should abandon, or at least fully abandon, their “gift of freedom”. 1 Nor is it to confuse comparative law with other more specific law subjects which may be taught in a comparative way. 2 What this article will propose is that comparative law be…
Tibet as a Stateless Society and Some Islamic Parallels
Tibet is the most numerically significant society practicing Vajrayana (Tantric) Buddhism. The unusual features of religion in Tibetan society are often understood in terms of differences between Vajrayana and other forms of Buddhism. The author suggests here that Tibet is not a "typical" Vajrayana society compared to the Newars or the Balinese, and that what is special about religion in Tibet is related to structural differences between Tibetan …
Islam and the family in Bangladesh and the UK
This article provides a general background to our research project on Islam and young Bangladeshis in Bangladesh and the UK. It discusses the changing nature of the Bangladeshi family in the UK and Bangladesh, and considers the structure of Islamic reform movements in the two countries. While many of the same Islamic movements operate in some form both in Bangladesh and in the UK, there are obvious differences in the social and political context …
The body in Buddhist and Hindu Tantra
The Buddhist and Hindu Tantras employ a non-dualist conceptualization of body and mind based upon the anatomy of the 'subtle body' with its 'centres' (cakra), 'channels' (nādī) and flows of 'energy' (prāna) and differing greatly from conventional Western modes of thinking about body and mind. The Buddhist Tantras add the central concept of bodhicitta, which is conceived of as both a motivational state and a pattern of energy-distribution within t…
Between Buddhism and Science, Between Mind and Body
Buddhism has been seen, at least since the Theravāda reform movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as particularly compatible with Western science. The recent explosion of Mindfulness therapies have strengthened this perception. However, the 'Buddhism' which is being brought into relation with science in the context of the Mindfulness movement has already undergone extensive rewriting under modernist influences, and many …
Contesting science for Islam
In our research with young Bangladeshis, we have been repeatedly struck by the popularity of television, DVD and Internet material that offers a modernist, quasi-scientific defence of Islamic knowledge against both ‘western’ scientific criticisms and US fundamentalist Christians. The South Indian doctor Zakir Naik's programmes, broadcast on his own television channel (Peace TV) and also available widely on DVD, are very popular, and admired for t…
Gender, religious change and sustainability in Bangladesh
Introduction au common law
Rédigé par deux comparatistes ayant souhaité partager avec un lectorat français les fruits de leur longue expérience d’enseignement en Angleterre, en Australie, au Canada, aux États-Unis et en Nouvelle-Zélande, ce livre veut offrir une introduction aux droits de common law qui, tant en raison de leur signification historique que de leur importance géopolitique, se révèlent particulièrement influents sur la scène internationale. À l’heure d’une gl…
From village religion to global networks
Nature Religion Today
(1996). Nature Religion Today: Western Paganism, Shamanism and Esotericism in the 1990s. Conference at the Lake District Campus of Lancaster University, 9th to 13th April 1996. Religion: Vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 373-376
The Female Lingam
The main purpose of the paper is to refute the rigid psychoanalytic determinism which holds that we cannot help attributing an exclusively male or female meaning to certain sexual symbols. Simultaneously it attempts to show that symbols are not as context-bound as structuralists are inclined to think, since the reversals of meanings discussed mostly refer to the individual symbol without affecting the context. A series of iconographic symbols and…
Sherpas Through Their Rituals
Introduction
The Religious Meaning of Space and Time
(2001). The Religious Meaning of Space and Time: South and Southeast Asia and Modern Paganism. International Review of Sociology: Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 395-418
The effectiveness of goddesses, or, how ritual works
(2001). The effectiveness of goddesses, or, how ritual works. Anthropological Forum: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 73-91
A Recitation of the Tamang Shaman in Nepal
The Lama Knows
Songs of Lhasa
Songs of Lhasa
The Female Lingam
The main purpose of the paper is to refute the rigid psychoanalytic determinism which holds that we cannot help attributing an exclusively male or female meaning to certain sexual symbols. Simultaneously it attempts to show that symbols are not as context-bound as structuralists are inclined to think, since the reversals of meanings discussed mostly refer to the individual symbol without affecting the context. A series of iconographic symbols and…
Sherpas Through Their Rituals
The Religions of Mongolia
The Religions of Mongolia
Wrongful Interference With Goods
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The Religions of Tibet
Tibet as a Stateless Society and Some Islamic Parallels
Tibet is the most numerically significant society practicing Vajrayana (Tantric) Buddhism. The unusual features of religion in Tibetan society are often understood in terms of differences between Vajrayana and other forms of Buddhism. The author suggests here that Tibet is not a "typical" Vajrayana society compared to the Newars or the Balinese, and that what is special about religion in Tibet is related to structural differences between Tibetan …
The Lama Knows
Public And Private Law
The Religions of Tibet
Miraculous Voices
Ritual sounds produced by the secret men's cult of the Ilahita Arapesh (East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea) evoke feelings which, even to the operators, are mysterious in perceptual origin and therefore iconically apposite to, and validating of, the mysterious "spirit voices" these sounds are claimed literally to be. This paper examines the proposition that certain sounds affect the central nervous system in a manner that arouses feelings of t…
“Le Droit Subjectif” and English Law
Some years ago Professor Lawson reminded a Continental audience that “[i]n the English language there can be no confusion between the two legal senses attaching to the German word ‘Recht’ which has made it necessary to coin the two technical terms ‘objektives’ and ‘subjektives Recht.’” For in the English language ”the former is ‘law’, the latter ‘a right.’” In fact, as Lawson went on to explain, the notion of a “subjective right” in the civilian …
Introducing a new section of the Asaa review
Epistemology, propaganda and Roman law
(1989). Epistemology, propaganda and Roman law: Some reflections on the history of the subjective right. The Journal of Legal History: Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 161-179
The body in Buddhist and Hindu Tantra
The Buddhist and Hindu Tantras employ a non-dualist conceptualization of body and mind based upon the anatomy of the 'subtle body' with its 'centres' (cakra), 'channels' (nādī) and flows of 'energy' (prāna) and differing greatly from conventional Western modes of thinking about body and mind. The Buddhist Tantras add the central concept of bodhicitta, which is conceived of as both a motivational state and a pattern of energy-distribution within t…
Civilized Shamans
Kesar-Versionen aus Ladakh [Versions of the Gesar Epic from Ladakh]
Civilized Shamans
Buddhist Chant in a Western FrameTibetan Buddhist Rites From the Monasteries of Bhutan.John Levy
Nature Religion Today
(1996). Nature Religion Today: Western Paganism, Shamanism and Esotericism in the 1990s. Conference at the Lake District Campus of Lancaster University, 9th to 13th April 1996. Religion: Vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 373-376
Civilized Shamans
A Recitation of the Tamang Shaman in Nepal
Existe-t-il une procédure de codification du droit anglais
Is English Law in the Process of Being Codified ? Codification supposes a formalised and orderly system of norms, an idea which remains foreign to English law. The basis of the common law consists of causes of action which give a different content to legal concepts depending of the case in hand. The training of lawyers and the limited role accorded to academic scholarship are serious and long-lasting obstacles to any attempts at codification
Comparative Law and Jurisprudence
This article will propose that comparative law as a discipline should now consolidate itself as an independent subject with its own internal structure. This is not to say that its teachers and professors should abandon, or at least fully abandon, their “gift of freedom”. 1 Nor is it to confuse comparative law with other more specific law subjects which may be taught in a comparative way. 2 What this article will propose is that comparative law be…
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