Author details Department of Neurology, Taichung Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, No. 88, Sec. 1, Fengxing Rd., Tanzi Dist, 427 Taichung City, Taiwan. School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan. Department of Psychology, National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan. Department of Radiology, Taichung Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Tai...

9 1 Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Taipei Tzuchi Hospital, 10 the Buddhist Tzuchi Medical Foundation. 11 2 Divisions of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital 12 at Keelung, Keelung City, Taiwan. 13 The School of Medicine, Tzu-Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan. 14 Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taipei T...

Context. Hierarchal models of large scale structure (LSS) formation predict that galaxy clusters grow via gravitational infall and mergers of (smaller) mass concentrations, such as clusters and galaxy groups. Diffuse radio emission, in the form of radio halos and relics, is found in clusters undergoing a merger, indicating that shocks or turbulence associated with the merger are capable of acce...

Radio relics are diffuse radio sources in galaxy clusters that associated with merger shock waves. Detailed observations of total intensity and polarisation show complex structures on kiloparsec scales. The relation between the observed features underlying morphology magnetic field is not clear. Using three-dimensional magneto-hydrodynamical simulations, we study polarised emission produced by ...

Early Buddhist karma is an impersonal moral force that impartially and inevitably causes the consequences of actions to be visited upon the actor, especially determining their afterlife destination. The story of King Ajātasattu in the Pāli Samaññaphala Sutta, where not even the Buddha can intervene to save him, epitomizes the criterion of inescapability. Zoroastrian ethical thought runs along s...

This article examines whether the American cultural phenomena of the practice of Buddhism or the Buddhism-derived technique of mindfulness are likely to be helpful to the political left. It summarizes the central teachings of the ancient Buddhist texts, with particular focus on the issues of mindfulness and politics. It also reviews the political history of Buddhist countries. The author argues...

There are numerous historical and textual references to energy-like somatic experiences (ELSEs) from religious traditions, even a few psychological studies that have documented related phenomena. However, ELSEs remain an understudied effect of meditation in contemporary research. Based upon narratives large qualitative sample Buddhist meditators the West reporting meditation-related challenges,...

In this paper, the optical properties of one dimensional fractal structures are investigated. We consider six typical fractal photonic structures: the symmetric dual cantor-like fractal structure, the asymmetric dual cantor-like fractal structure, the single cantor-like fractal structure, the symmetric dual golden-section fractal structure, the asymmetric dual golden-section fractal structure a...