Format:
xxxi, 299 Seiten
,
Diagramme
ISBN:
9781611809879
Content:
Editor's introduction / by Sarah Shaw -- Introduction -- 1. Jhāna in the commentaries -- 2. Jhāna in the Pali Canon -- 3. Formless attainments in the Pali Canon -- 4. The roots of insight meditation -- 5. Samatha and Vipassanā -- 6. The Sutta on mindfulness with in and out breathing -- 7. The lost meditation tradition from the Silk Road -- 8. The Porāṇa meditation tradition -- 9. The flourishing of insight meditation in modern times -- 10. The varieties of Samatha and Samatha-Vipassanā today -- 11. Jhanā meditation instructions from the Theriya tradition: a translation of Ācariya Buddhadatta's Entrance to Abhidamma, Chapter Fourteen -- Appendix A: Buddhaghosa's classification of forty objects -- Appendix B: Commonly cited passages -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Content:
"Based on a series of lectures that were themselves crafted with this book in mind, this books explores meditation in the Southern Buddhist tradition from its beginnings at the time of the Buddha and after, with a survey of some of the many schools of meditation practice found in recent Theravāda Buddhism and an interlude in Central Asia"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
,
Theology
Keywords:
Pāli
;
Buddhistische Literatur
;
Meditation
;
Shamata
;
Vipashyanā
;
Therawada
;
Meditation
