The burgeoning field of contemplative studies is beginning to gain a foothold at the University. Twenty-five students are taking UC 54: "Introduction to Contemplative Studies" this semester, and the ...

WEST GOSHEN >> Pat Croce is no stranger to West Chester University. As an alumni, he went on to become a sports legend in the Philadelphia area after turning the Philadelphia 76ers from the worst team ...

On October 22, students and faculty gathered in Tucker Hall to hear Dr. Harold Roth, Professor of Religious Studies and East Asian Studies at Brown University, deliver a lecture titled “Contemplative ...

Tenzin Gyatso, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, opened the 2nd International Symposium for Contemplative Studies (ISCS) in Boston with more than 1400 academics, researchers, practitioners and ...

With the conclusion of the 2025-26 academic year, the Contemplative Commons building celebrates its first year since its ...

Tomorrow the University will host a day-long symposium – Creativity, Consciousness and the Academy – espousing the philosophy behind the growing field of contemplative studies. The discipline fuses ...

The recent International Symposium for Contemplative Studies (ISCS), held in Denver, opened with a guided meditation-turned-keynote address by mindfulness pioneer Jon Kabat-Zinn, sitting cross-legged ...

Three times last week, between classes in neuropharmacology, neural systems and journalism, Brown University junior Henry Langton changed into sweatpants, sat with dozens of classmates on cushions in ...

It was in 1974 that Naropa Institute was established in Colorado and later became the Naropa University. It is a university which combines contemplative studies with traditional Western scholastic and ...

Now the two heavyweight institutions are well placed to examine the evidence base for wildly popular versions of mindfulness and other contemplative practices, as well as dig deeper into the ...

Sara Terrault, part-time faculty in Theological Studies, integrates contemplative practices in the classroom to support her students in finding stillness to centre themselves. The exercises encourage ...