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Esoteric Theravada : the story of the forgotten meditation tradition of Southeast Asia / Kate Crosby.

By: Crosby, Kate (Religion scholar) [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Boulder, Colorado : Shambhala Publications, Inc., [2020]Edition: First editionDescription: xi, 303 pages ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781611807943Subject(s): Borān kammaṭṭhāna

| Theravāda Buddhism -- Southeast Asia -- History

DDC classification: 294.3910959 LOC classification: BQ5630.B67 | C76 2020

Contents:

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.

Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.

List(s) this item appears in: Meditation in Theravada Buddhism | Theravada Buddhism (All collection)

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Item type	Current location	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Books (Long term)	Shan State Buddhist University Library English Shelves	English Collection	294.3910959 Cr 10085	Available	EB00010085
Books (Long term)	Shan State Buddhist University Library English Shelves	English Collection	294.3910959 Cr 10973	Available	EB00010973
Books (Long term)	Shan State Buddhist University Library English Shelves	English Collection	294.3910959 Cr 18521	Available	EB00018521

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Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-286) and index.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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