{"id":1118,"date":"2026-07-20T15:07:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebenefactors.org\/?page_id=1118"},"modified":"2026-08-17T12:20:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T12:20:23","slug":"contemplative-challenges-collaborative-project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ebenefactors.org\/?page_id=1118","title":{"rendered":"Contemplative Challenges Collaborative Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contemplative Challenges Collaborative Project<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This project involves the formation of a transdisciplinary working group to address the critical gap between traditional Buddhist understandings of meditation-related adverse effects and contemporary Western lack of understandings of these conditions. The Contemplative Challenges Collaborative brings together a core group of about 20 specialists, including historians, anthropologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, traditional medicine practitioners, and teachers and adepts of Buddhist meditation for a series ofvirtual and in-person dialogues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Supported by the Ho Foundation, through Emergence Benefactors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Director of this project is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/pierce-salguero-82bb89227\" title=\"\">Dr. C. Pierce Salguero<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Update &#8211; July 26<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This project is currently in its planning stage, with work due to begin in August 26.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contemplative Challenges Collaborative Project This project involves the formation of a transdisciplinary working group to address the critical gap between traditional Buddhist understandings of meditation-related adverse effects and contemporary Western lack of understandings of these conditions. 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