1979 AD
MBSR and clinical mindfulness adaptation
Religion · Buddhist traditions · Modern Buddhism, diaspora, and health
The MBSR program is founded at a Massachusetts medical center in 1979; it relates to mindfulness practices but is a specific clinical adaptation, distinct from a complete Buddhist tradition.
Precision, calendar, and review
- Start
- year · no uncertainty qualifier in this record
- Dating in the source document
- 1979
- Calendar and convention
- Historical-era years; the source calendar is not identified. No conversion of days is assumed.
- Year zero
- The scale goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE without year zero. Changing era names changes labels only.
- Documentary review
- 2026-09-04
Reading the date: point event.
Sources
- UMass Medical School — historia de MBSR (opens in a new tab)
Source provenance and scope
- Publication date
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- Bibliographic date checked
- 2026-09-23
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