Adrian SCHIFFBECK

Academic Year:
2022/2023

Field of Study:
Religious Studies

Research Program:
NEC Odobleja

Affiliation:
Independent Scholar

Country:
Romania

ORCID: 0000-0002-2071-0160

Research project: The Strangers to the World: Attitudes on Solitude and Compassion in Buddhist and Orthodox Monasteries from Japan and Romania

Solitude and compassion are central to both Christian and Buddhist monasticism. Starting from a lack of comparative approaches on the subject in the scientific literature, this qualitative research investigates the way monks in an Orthodox monastery from Romania, and those living in a monastery from Japan, live and understand solitude and compassion. Ethnography and semi-structured interviews will reveal the way generosity (as a result of compassion) may be achieved during isolation.

A full-length study is available here.