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“Universal Dharma”: Authority, Experience and Metaphysics in the Transmission of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction


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Type

Thesis

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Authors

Drage, Matthew Nicholas 

Description

Date

2017-09-28

Advisors

Forrester, John
Alexandrova, Anna
Lynteris, Christos

Keywords

mindfulness, MBSR, MBCT, New Age, Theosophy, William James, Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, Western Buddhism, Insight Meditation, Vipassana, Behavioral Medicine, diagrams, Max Weber, History of Psychotherapy, transmission, authority, ethnography, oral history, CBT, Buddhism

Qualification

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Awarding Institution

University of Cambridge
Sponsorship
This work was supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (grant number 04174).