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Distribution AgreementDistribution Agreement • October 27th, 2021
This dissertation adopts a critical-constructivist approach to the development of secular, Buddhist-based contemplative programs in the United States. Mindfulness- and compassion-based programs--including in particular Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), Cognitively-Based Compassion Training (CBCT) and Innate Compassion Training (ICT)--offer distinct models for healing that rest on different Buddhist assumptions of the causes of suffering and the means for overcoming suffering. MBSR, CBCT, and ICT have been influenced by and respond to the American cultural context in which they are delivered. They developed within what Charles Taylor terms the "immanent frame," and have been shaped by their assimilation into and critique of other discourses of modernity, including scientific rationalism and romanticism. Each program variously interprets and rhetorically employs the categories of the secular, the scientific, and the spiritual to create frames permitting different claims to unive
