Esoteric Theravada : the story of the forgotten meditation tradition of Southeast Asia
Kate Crosby
Bok · Engelsk · 2020
| Omfang | XI, 303 sider
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| Utgave | First edition
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| Opplysninger | The colonial gaze : the invisibility of premodern Theravada meditation -- Abhidhamma and practice : the path in Theravada meditation systems -- Documenting the esoteric : the production and survival of evidence for premodern Theravada meditation -- Technologies of transformation : grammar, mathematics and the significance of substitution -- Transformation of the body : meditation, medicine and chemistry -- From centre to periphery : the changing place of borān kammaṭṭhāna under Thai influence -- Meditation in modern revivals.. - "Discover the esoteric branch of Theravada meditation in the first English-language exploration of a practice tradition nearly lost to history. In this groundbreaking book, scholar Kate Crosby illuminates the once-dominant traditional Theravada meditation system known as borān kamahāna. Theravadan Buddhism, though often understood as the school that most carefully preserved the practices originally taught by the Buddha, has in fact undergone tremendous change over time. Prior to Western concerns with the separation of science and religion that influenced Asian Buddhist modernizers, there existed a tradition of embodied, esoteric, and culturally regional Theravadan meditation practices. These meditation systems differ radically from the reformed, text-based meditations that are now taught in Theravada Buddhism, including Vipassana and Insight Meditation, as well as Buddhist and secular mindfulness. Drawing on a quarter century of research, Crosby offers the first holistic discussion of borān kamahāna in the context of historical events and cultural processes by which the practice has been marginalized in the modern era. Readers of Esoteric Theravada will never see Theravada Buddhism in the same light again"--
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| ISBN | 9781611807943
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