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In this section you will find all publications by Federico Divino, organized primarily by theme.
In this section you will find all publications by Federico Divino, organized primarily by theme.
Each topic gathers articles, essays, and research materials related to consciousness studies, Buddhist meditation, and contemplative sciences, making it easy to explore the areas that interest you most.
Each topic gathers articles, essays, and research materials related to consciousness studies, Buddhist meditation, and contemplative sciences, making it easy to explore the areas that interest you most.
Any publication with a DOI link can be consulted in open access. Alternatively, by clicking “Read it here”, it can be consulted from the institutional archive.
Research on meditation, consciousness, cognitive studies
Research on meditation, consciousness, cognitive studies
• The Purpose of Language: A Comparative Analysis on Early Buddhist Psychology and Phenomenology. Morlacchi University Press, Perugia. 2025. [https://doi.org/10.57610/QUADERNI2]
• “Semiosis and nāmarūpa: Exploring the Early Buddhist Theory of Signs Through Cognitive Semiotics.” Philosophies 10, No. 4.93 (2025): 1-50. [https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies10040093]
• “Beyond semiosis: early Buddhist phenomenology and theory of consciousness.” Cogent Arts and Humanities 12, No. 1.2529679 (2025): 1-53. [https://doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2025.2529679]
• “Gates of Consciousness: Buddhist Phenomenology of Cognition in the Abhidhamma.” Philosophies 10, No. 3.68 (2025): 1-26. [https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies10030068]
• “Seers and Ascetics: Analyzing the Vedic Theory of Cognition and Contemplative Practice in the Development of Early Buddhist Meditation and Imaginary.” Religions 16, No. 3.378 (2025): 1-55. [https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16030378]
• “Language and Consciousness in Early Buddhist Thought: On the Early Reflections on the Theme of Language and the Perception of Reality in the Pāli Canon.” Philosophies 10, No. 2.31 (2025): 1-37. [https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies10020031]
• “The dawn of division: For an anthropological theory of consciousness through contemplative ethnography.” Anthropology of Consciousness 36, No. 1 (2025): e12246. [https://doi.org/10.1111/anoc.12246]
• “Re-visioning ethnography through meditative practice: the proposal for a contemplative anthropology and Its experience through visual elicitation technique.” Journal of Contemplative Studies (2024): 1-40. [https://doi.org/10.57010/BVHW5813]
• “Dualism and Psychosemantics: Holography and Pansematism in Early Buddhist Philosophy.” Comparative Philosophy 14, No. 2 (2023): 1-40. [https://doi.org/10.31979/2151-6014(2023).140204]
Medical Antrhopology,
studies on Buddhist medicine and medical thought
Medical Antrhopology,
studies on Buddhist medicine and medical thought
• “The Dawn of the Physician: A Buddhist Approach to the History of Medicine.” Hualin International Journal of Buddhist Studies 8, no. 1 (2025): 196–251. [https://dx.doi.org/10.15239/hijbs.08.01.06]
• “Humours and their Legacy in Early Buddhist Medicine: Revisiting the Indo-European Foundation of Medical Conceptions in the Pāli Canon.” History of Science in South Asia 13 (2025): 1-49. [https://doi.org/10.18732/hssa118]
• “Elements of the Buddhist Medical System.” History of Science in South Asia 11 (2023): 22-62. [https://doi.org/10.18732/hssa97]
• “Reaching the End of the World: An Anthropological Reading of Early Buddhist Medicine and Ascetic Practices.” Religions 14, No. 2.249. [https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14020249]
Subsection
Studies on modern meditation for therapeutic purposes, techno-medicine, techno-mindfulness
• “Biopolitics of Techno-Mindfulness: Anthropological Reflections on the Issue of Modern App-Based Training of Focused Attention.” Humans 5, no. 4 (2025): 27. [https://doi.org/10.3390/humans5040027]
• “From Meditation to Techno-Mindfulness: On the Medicalization of Contemplative Practices and Future Prospects.” Histories 4, No.1 (2024): 125-143. [https://doi.org/10.3390/histories4010008]
• “Mindful Apocalypse: Contemplative Anthropology Investigating Experiences of World-Loss in Deep Meditation.” Religions 14, No. 7.941 (2023): 1-35. [https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14070941]
Research on History of Buddhist thought,
Buddhist philosophy and philology
Research on History of Buddhist thought,
Buddhist philosophy and philology
• “The Shores beyond the World: Fire and Ocean as Founding Metaphors of Early Buddhist Poetic Philosophy.” The Indian International Journal of Buddhist Studies No. 24 (2024): 51-88. [READ IT HERE]
• “What Dawned First: Early Buddhist Philosophy on the Problem of Phenomenon and Origin in a Comparative Perspective.” Philosophies 9, No. 5.135 (2024): 1-20. [https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies9050135]
• “In This World or the Next: Investigation Over the “End of the World” in Contemplative Practice Through the Pāli Canon.” Annali Sezione Orientale 83, No. 1-2 (2023): 99-129. [https://doi.org/10.1163/24685631-12340142]
• “An Anthropological Outline of the Sutta Nipāta: The Contemplative Experience in Early Buddhist Poetry.” Religions 14, No. 2.172 (2023): 1-26. [https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14020172]
• “The Lion and the Bull: Inquiry on Two Animal Symbols in Early Buddhism.” Journal of International Buddhist Studies 14, No. 2 (2023): 20-43. [READ IT HERE]
Other Indian philosophies, studies on Sāṃkhya and other forms of contemplative practice
Other Indian philosophies, studies on Sāṃkhya and other forms of contemplative practice
• “Converging ontologies: On some similarities between the Sāṃkhyakārikā and Plotinus’s Enneads.” Metaphilosophy 56, No. 2 (2025): 264-279. [https://doi.org/10.1111/meta.12728]
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