Esoteric Theravada - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Esoteric Theravada write by Kate Crosby. This book was released on 2020-12-22. Esoteric Theravada available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A groundbreaking exploration of a practice tradition that was nearly lost to history. Theravada Buddhism, often understood as the school that most carefully preserved the practices taught by the Buddha, has undergone tremendous change over time. Prior to Western colonialism in Asia—which brought Western and modernist intellectual concerns, such as the separation of science and religion, to bear on Buddhism—there existed a tradition of embodied, esoteric, and culturally regional Theravada meditation practices. This once-dominant traditional meditation system, known as borān kammatthāna, is related to—yet remarkably distinct from—Vipassana and other Buddhist and secular mindfulness practices that would become the hallmark of Theravada Buddhism in the twentieth century. Drawing on a quarter century of research, scholar Kate Crosby offers the first holistic discussion of borān kammatthāna, illuminating the historical events and cultural processes by which the practice has been marginalized in the modern era.
Shingon
Shingon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shingon write by Taikō Yamasaki. This book was released on 1988. Shingon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Meditations of the Pali Tradition
Meditations of the Pali Tradition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Meditations of the Pali Tradition write by L. S. Cousins. This book was released on 2022-09-27. Meditations of the Pali Tradition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Esoteric Buddhism at Dunhuang
Esoteric Buddhism at Dunhuang - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Esoteric Buddhism at Dunhuang write by . This book was released on 2010-01-28. Esoteric Buddhism at Dunhuang available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Esoteric Buddhism in late first millennium Tibet and China is nowhere in evidence so clearly as in materials from Dunhuang. In the original contributions presented here, Robert Mayer and Cathy Cantwell examine the consecrations of the wrathful divinity Vajrakīlaya, while Sam van Schaik considers approaches to the vows of tantric adepts. Philosophical interpretations of Mahāyoga inform Kammie Takahashi’s study of the ‘Questions of Vajrasattva’. The background for later Tibetan tantric mortuary rites are examined in chapters by Yoshiro Imaeda and Matthew Kapstein. In the closing chapter, Katherine Tsiang investigates early printing in relation to esoteric dhāraṇīs, and their role as amulets accompanying the deceased. The collection is an important advance in our understanding of the historical development of Buddhist tantra.
The Practices of Esoteric Theravada
The Practices of Esoteric Theravada - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Practices of Esoteric Theravada write by Kate Crosby. This book was released on 2021-09-07. The Practices of Esoteric Theravada available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "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 boråan kamahåana. 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 boråan kamahåana 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"--
