Message to Prospective Students

The Mindful Living Research Group offers research guidance on the questions of the theory and practice of mindfulness, according to an interdisciplinary approach combining the methodologies of Buddhist studies, Western philosophy, and cognitive psychology, and in order to survive and thrive in the 21st century.

Research Areas

Mindfulness
Buddhist Theories of Meditation

現在・過去の学生の指導実績

在学生

Zheng Xiaoyu (鄭 小羽)
研究題目：Cultural Survival and Revival in Contemporary Eastern Tibet: Research on the Life and Works of Lungtok Gyaltsen (1927-2011)

Lhamtso Tseyu
研究題目： Recognizing Mental Hindrances and Applying Antidotes Through Mindfulness: Research on the Mahāyāna Buddhist Psychology of Mind and Mental Factors

卒業生

楠本亮太郎
研究題目：マインドフルネス（正念）による高等教育の再興―古代の原典、文化横断的哲学とその統合的な応用 Re-envisioning Higher Education with Mindfulness: Ancient Sources, Cross-Cultural Philosophy, and Integrated Applications

出版論文（共著）： Deroche, MH., Kuyken, W., Uwatoko, T., Imoto, Y., Kusumoto, R. (2025). The Mindful Way from Information to Knowledge, to Wisdom, and to Life: Perspectives on Mindfulness (-Based Cognitive Therapy) for Higher Education. Mindfulness. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-025-02528-5

出版論文（単著）： Kusumoto, R. (in press). Re-envisioning Student-Centered Learning (SCL) with Mindfulness: A Dialogue Between John Dewey and Buddhist Philosophy. Journal of Philosophy of Education. Kusumoto, R. (2022). Sources of Japanese Buddhist Philosophy of Education: Saichō (最澄, 766/7–822) on Study, Reflection, and Cultivation. Religions 13(7), 624. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13070624

修了後の進路：研究員・起業
Lobsang Gnon Na
研究題目：Mindfulness Training in Tranquil Abiding: Perspectives of Yeshe Gyaltsen and His Predecessors and Its Potential Implications to Global Citizenship Education

出版論文（単著）
Gnon-na, L. T. (2022). Theory and Practice of Tranquil Abiding Meditation in Tibet: The Pith Instructions of Yeshe Gyaltsen (1713–1793) and His Predecessors. Religions 13(11), 1057. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13111057

野村将揮
研究題目：Japanese Philosophy of Mind-Body and Mindfulness: Re-Envisioning the Concepts of Shinshin-ichinyo and Nen in Zen Culture

出版論文（単著）
Masaki, N. (2022). Zen Philosophy of Mindfulness: Nen 念 according to Dōgen’s Shōbōgenzō. Religions 13(9), 775. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13090775

柚江夏弥
研究題目：情感性と生存力ーミシェル・アンリの生と文化の現象学の分析ー