Michael R. Sheehy, PhD is a meditation researcher whose expertise on contemplative dynamics abides at the junctures of the history of religion, empirical phenomenology, and the cognitive sciences. Trained in Buddhist Studies, specializing in Tibetan meditative systems, his work advances transdisciplinary research on consciousness and its transformations vectored toward human flourishing. Read More.
RECENT NEWS:
Review of the book, “Meditation, Buddhism, and Science” edited by David L. McMahan and Erik Braun. Oxford University Press,…
“The Case of the Missing Shangpas in Tibet.” In Reasons and Lives in Buddhist Traditions: Studies in Honor…
Talk at the Tathāgatagarbha Across Asia Symposium held at the University of Vienna, July 16-19, 2019: “Tantric Zhentong…
“Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen on Refraining from Meat.” In The Faults of Meat: Tibetan Buddhist Writings on Vegetarianism. Edited…
Post on the Lion’s Roar, What is the Rainbow Body? “In Vajrayana traditions of Tibetan Buddhism, tangible matter…
Article that outlines contemplation in three dimensions: (1) Reflection, (2) Contextualization, and (3) Transformation. Published in a thematic…
Tathāgatagarbha Across Asia Symposium. University of Vienna. July, 2019
Ligmincha Symposium for Contemplative Sciences: Body, Breath, and Mind . April 2019 at Serenity Ridge Retreat Center,…
“THE JONANGPA AFTER TĀRANĀTHA: AUTO/BIOGRAPHICAL WRITINGS ON THE TRANSMISSION OF ESOTERIC BUDDHIST KNOWLEDGE IN SEVENTEENTH CENTURY TIBET” MICHAEL…
Talk, “Contemplation and the Sciences in Dialogue: On the Horizon of New Ways of Knowing” presented at the Science…
