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Meditation (Wikipedia)
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Wikipedia's article on meditation across religious and secular contexts, consulted 2026-08-11.
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Wikipedia's article on meditation across religious and secular contexts, consulted 2026-08-11, the lower tier reflecting a crowd sourced, not independently peer reviewed encyclopedia entry, useful for a broad comparative overview. NotesWikipedia's article on meditation, consulted 2026-08-11. A perpetually community-edited reference page rather than a peer-reviewed publication; used here for its account of meta-analyses of mindfulness clinical trials and the field's shift toward randomized controlled trials, its comparative list of postures across Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist and Jain practice including a 2018 study on cushion versus chair stability, and the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago as the landmark event that increased Western awareness of meditation, standard reference facts.
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Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meditation
Source Typereference
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This source backs 149 claims across the atlas. As facts: 148 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Practices, 141 claims: 140 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
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