Stand-alone self-compassion or mindful self-compassion, presented independently from the cultivation of other-oriented compassion, has recently emerged as a specific field of secular training and research. Its purported Buddhist background has so far received limited attention in academic scholarship. This article surveys Buddhist precedents—or lack thereof—to the contemporary emergence of this notion. In view of the yet to be established presence of an altruistic component as a psychological corollary of self-compassion, an analysis of the Buddhist sources may offer insights relevant for facilitating future research on the self-other relationship in self-kindness (or self-benevolence) and self-compassion constructs and on altruistic aspects as correlates of self-compassion.

独立于自我培养或正念自我同养而与其他定向同情心的培养无关地出现，最近已成为世俗训练和研究的特定领域。迄今为止，其声称的佛教背景在学术研究中很少受到关注。本文概述了佛教这一概念在当代出现的先例（或没有先例）。鉴于利他主义成分作为自我同情的心理推论的存在尚待确定，对佛教资料的分析可能会提供一些有益的见解，以利于未来对自我同情（或自我仁慈）和自我同情的建构，并在利他主义方面将自我同情联系在一起。