Slovenski etnografski muzej

Številka revije 
Etnolog 19 (2009)
Strani 
205-221
Avtor 
Maja Korun
Članek v pdf obliki 
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The Buddhist meditation Vipassanā in a New Age context

This article tries to situate the Buddhist meditation called Vipassanā in a New Age context on the basis of recollections and acknowledgements of the lives of a certain target group of people.
With the introduction of Vipassanā and the New Age phenomenon along with arguments from psychology, this article emphasis and exposes the way these individuals deal with existential
problems in life, employing various modes and mainly spirituality, which becomes a form of alternative psychology. in its original context, Vipassanā helps a more effcient integration and
functioning of individuals inside a society, however, in a relatively new environment (Europe), it is reinterpreted and leads to an estrangement from duties imposed and expected of us.