I might just start asking for people to taboo 'enlightenment' in all my conversations on the topic. (And yup, 'kensho' is not a tabooing, it's just another word for the same thing.)
Now this is really interesting; I wasn't aware this level of teasing out individual threads had been attempted yet. Am I correct in reading this table that Tibetan is the only tradition which has a technique in every category? Does Tibetan have a privileged place in the study at all (for example an expert on the tradition participated in its design)?
I am particularly curious why Calm Abiding Without Support proved to merit a category all to itself; this paper is going in the reading list.
I'm actually somewhat suspicious of the overall quality of the table given how it classifies shikantaza. Shikantaza can lead to non-dual insight but is in practice more like open monitoring, though through shikantaza you can have insight of no-self and the non-dual nature of reality, but this is also possible with koan practice. They may explain more in the paper how they came up with this classification but just reading the table I'm uncertain how much info you can draw from it though to be fair much of it is right and this may turn out to just be an error or a nit.
It seems that there are multiple different mental states that people have historically called "enlightenment", as well as many different types of contemplative practices with different underlying cognitive mechanisms. I link to and quote from a couple of papers showing this. Given the apparent multiplicity of "enlightenment" states and contemplative practices, I'd like to request that future discussions on these topics include more detailed references or descriptions as to which states and practices are being talking about.
Can enlightenment be traced to specific neural correlates, cognition, or behavior?
Reconstructing and deconstructing the self: Cognitive mechanisms in meditation practice
Below is a table from this paper showing how it classifies various traditional and modern contemplative practices. (Click here to see a more readable version.)