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Meditations of the Pali Tradition: Illuminating Buddhist Doctrine, History, and Practice

Meditations of the Pali Tradition: Illuminating Buddhist Doctrine, History, and Practice

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Buddhism

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ISBN10: 1611809878
ISBN13: 9781611809879
Publisher: Shambhala
Published: Sep 27 2022
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.92 Width: 5.62 Depth: 8.47
Language: English
A groundbreaking and detailed presentation of the rich system of meditation traditions that have come to us through the Pali tradition of Buddhism.

Meditations of the Pali Tradition, from consummate scholar of Pali Buddhism L. S. Cousins, explores the history of meditation practice in early or Pali Buddhism, which was established in various parts of South and Central Asia from the time of the Buddha and developed until at least the fourteenth century CE. Ranging in discussion of jhana (absorption) meditation in ancient India to the Buddhist practice centers of the Silk Road to the vipassana (insight) practices of our modern world, this rigorous and insightful work of scholarship sheds new light on our understanding of the practices that are today associated with the Theravada school of Buddhism and the insight meditation movement. Cousins demonstrates that there is much more to Buddhist meditation than mindfulness alone--concentration and joy, for example, are equally important.

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