Sitting in the Fire Together: People of Color Cultivating Radical Resilience in North American Insight Meditation

Drawing upon ethnographic research conducted in California with BIPOC practitioners of mindfulness, this article examines their efforts to create “safe spaces” to collectively experience and process painful embodied emotions around racialized trauma. These collective spaces, I argue, help meditators...

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Main Author: Gajaweera, Nalika (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: [publisher not identified] 2021
In: Journal of global buddhism
Year: 2021, Volume: 22, Issue: 1, Pages: 121-139
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B USA / Racism / Colored person / Trauma / Watchfulness / Meditation / Space
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
BL Buddhism
KBQ North America
Further subjects:B PoC
B Race
B Intersubjectivity
B Mindfulness
B American Buddhism
B Emotions
B Resilience
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Rights Information:CC BY-NC 4.0