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Analytical Meditation
Author_Chris Kang
Author_Roderick Bucknell
Breath Moves
Buddhist Meditation
Buddhist phenomenology
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Charnel Ground
comparative meditation studies
Constant Mindfulness
contemplative psychology
critical evaluation of Buddhist meditation texts
Empathic Joy
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Formal Meditation Practice
Full Lotus Posture
Insight Meditation
Karmic Activity
Loving Kindness Meditation
Mahasi Sayadaw
Meditation Object
meditative states analysis
Meditator's Journal
mindfulness research
Noble Disciple
Noble Eightfold Path
Noble Truth
Pali Suttas
Previous Disappearance
Short Breath
Supernormal Powers
Theravada meditation techniques
Unwholesome States
Worldly Desire
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780700706785
- Weight: 530g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 16 Dec 1996
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Buddhist meditation, while attracting less popular attention than some other meditative disciplines, has given rise to a particularly rich literature in recent years. Despite differences in style and terminology, these modern writings on Buddhist meditation serve much the same purposes as did the manuals and commentaries of the classical masters: to explicate and interpret the Buddha's teachings on meditation, to clarify the nature and value of the various meditative techniques and attainments, and/or to offer advice on the actual practice of meditation.
Meditators are increasingly inclined to compare and evaluate critically what the different contemporary meditation masters have to say, to weigh up the results of relevant scientific studies, or to consult translations of the primary texts in search of the Buddha's 'original' teachings on meditation. Writers on meditation are also increasingly adopting an appropriately critical approach, particularly as regards the reliability of textual accounts. Relatively few still commit the old error of assuming that the Pali canon is a complete and faithful record of what the Buddha said on the subject, or that the classical commentators were infallible authorities.
The present collection of twenty-eight readings is designed to give meditators, researchers, and general readers ready access to representative samples of those writings, and to the principal relevant texts.
