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Stephen Fulder (born 1946 in
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,
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) is the founder and senior teacher of the Israel Insight Society (Tovana), the major organisation in Israel teaching Buddhist meditative practice. He has worked since 1975  in the field of herbal and complementary medicine as an author, consultant and researcher, publishing many books and research papers. His latest book is: "What's Beyond Mindfulness: Waking Up to This Precious Life".


Biography

Stephen Fulder was educated at
University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...
and the National Institute of Medical Research, where he was awarded his PhD in
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. He was a lecturer at
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. He is the founder and senior teacher of ''Tovana'' ''(the Israel Insight Society)'', a leading Buddhist practice organisation in Israel, teaching
Mindfulness Mindfulness is the practice of purposely bringing one's attention to the present-moment experience without evaluation, a skill one develops through meditation or other training. Mindfulness derives from ''sati'', a significant element of Hind ...
,
Vipassana ''Samatha'' (Pāli; sa, शमथ ''śamatha''; ), "calm," "serenity," "tranquillity of awareness," and ''vipassanā'' (Pāli; Sanskrit ''vipaśyanā''), literally "special, super (''vi-''), seeing (''-passanā'')", are two qualities of the ...
and
dharma Dharma (; sa, धर्म, dharma, ; pi, dhamma, italic=yes) is a key concept with multiple meanings in Indian religions, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism and others. Although there is no direct single-word translation for '' ...
. He has been practicing meditation since 1975. He has been involved for many years in peace work in the Middle East and was a founder of the ''Middle Way'' organisation. He used to work in the field of herbs and
alternative medicine Alternative medicine is any practice that aims to achieve the healing effects of medicine despite lacking biological plausibility, testability, repeatability, or evidence from clinical trials. Complementary medicine (CM), complementary and alt ...
about which he has written numerous books.


''Tovana'' ''(Israel Insight Society)''

Stephen Fulder has established ''Tovana (the Israel Insight Society)'' which is a teaching organisation for the practice of attention in everyday life through insight meditation — Vipassana. ''Tovana'' is inspired by Buddhist tradition, philosophy and practice as a way of life. ''Tovana'' is linked to a looser network of  Western centers and teachers, such as the
Insight Meditation Society The Insight Meditation Society (IMS) is a non-profit organization for study of Buddhism located in Barre, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1975, by Sharon Salzberg, Jack Kornfield, and Joseph Goldstein and is rooted in the Theravada tradition. Its ...
in the United States and Gaia House in Britain. It holds many residential retreats throughout the year as well as lectures, meetings and weekly  group practices across the country.


Bibliography

* ''Ageing and Somatic Mutations in Human Fibroblasts'', Ph.D Thesis,  CNAA,  London (1975). *
About Ginseng
', Thorsons, Harper Collins, London (1976). * ''The Ginseng Book,'' Avery  Press, New York (1996). * ''The Book of Ginseng, and other Chinese Herbs for Vitality'', Healing Arts Press, Rochester, Vermont, (1993). * ''An End to Ageing?,'' Thorsons, Harper Collins, London, and Healing  Arts  Press, Rochester, Vermont, (1987). * ''The Handbook of Alternative and Complementary Medicine'', Third edition,  Oxford  University Press, Oxford (1996). * ''Garlic, Nature's  Original  Remedy (with John  Blackwood),''Healing Arts Press, Rochester, Vermont (1991). * ''The Garlic Book''. Avery  Press, New York (1996). * ''How To Survive Medical Treatment'', Third edition, C.W. Daniel, Saffron Walden,  Essex (1994). * ''Towards a New Science of Health, (with R. Lafaille, co-editor),'' Routledge,  London (1993). * ''The Ginger Book'': Souvenir Press, London (1994). and Avery  Press, New York, (1996). * ''Potentiating Health and the Crisis of Immunity, (with A. Mizrachi, N. Sheinman, co-editors),'' Plenum, New York, (1996). * ''FAQs: All About Garlic'' Avery Press, New York (1998). * ''FAQs: All About Ginseng,'' Avery Press, New York (1998). * ''User's Guide to Garlic,'' Basic Health Publications, Bergen, New Jersey (2005) * ''What's Beyond Mindfulness: Waking Up to This Precious Life'' Watkins (2019)


See also

*
Buddhism in The Middle East It is estimated that in the Middle East, over 900,000 people profess Buddhism as their religion. Buddhist adherents make up just over 0.3% of the Middle East total population. Many of these Buddhists are workers who have migrated from Asia to the ...
*
Christopher Titmuss Christopher Titmuss (born 22 April 1944) is Britain's senior Dharma teacher. He offers retreats on ethics, insight meditation (''vipassana'') and wisdom. He is the author of 20 books on such themes as mindfulness, spirituality, teachings of the ...
* Joseph Goldstein


References


External links

* Tovana (The Israel Insight Society): http://tovana.org.il/ * Stephen Fulder's Website in English
www.stephenfulder.com
* Stephen Fulder's Website in Hebrew
www.heb.stephenfulder.com
* Stephen Fulder's Dharma Talks on
Dharma Seed Dharma Seed is non-profit organization "dedicated to preserving and sharing the spoken teachings of Theravada Buddhism in modern languages". History "Dharma Seed began in 1983 when
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a volunteer at Insight Meditation Society (IMS ...
: http://imsb.dharmaseed.org/teacher/589/ * Stephen Fulder's article on
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