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020			_a9781645470809 _q(trade paperback)
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100	1		_aDennison, Paul _c(Consultant psychotherapist), _eauthor. _945898
245	1	0	_aJhāna consciousness : _bBuddhist meditation in the age of neuroscience / _cPaul Dennison.
246	3		_aJnāna consciousness
264		1	_aBoulder : _bShambhala, _c[2022]
300			_axii, 290 pages : _billustrations ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [265]-271) and index.
505	0		_aPreface -- Introduction -- Part I. Ancient Traditions: Jhāna and Yogāvacara -- 1. Invocation -- 2. The First Rūpa Jhāna: Attention, Vitakka, and Vicāra -- 3. The Second Rūpa Jhāna: Pīti, Energization -- 4. The Third Rūpa Jhāna, "Fully Conscious" -- 5. The Fourth Rūpa Jhāna: Upekkhā -- 6. Summary of the Four Rūpa Jhānas -- 7. Twilight Language, Syllables, and Yantra -- 8. The First Arūpa Jhāna: Infinity of Space -- 9. The Second Arūpa Jhāna: Infinity of Consciousness -- 10. The Third Arūpa Jhāna: Nothingness -- 11. The Fourth Arūpa Jhāna: Neither Perception nor Non-Perception -- Part II. Modern Neuroscience, Consciousness, and an Ancient Path -- 12. Neuroscience of the Jhānas -- 13. Consciousness -- 14. An Ancient Path -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
520			_a"The practice of jhāna, or meditative absorption, is central to the earliest Buddhist teachings. For centuries in Southeast Asia, oral Yogāvacara (yoga practitioner) traditions kept this practice alive, but in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, reforms in Buddhism suppressed jhāna meditation in favor of vipassana, or insight meditation. The traditional methods of jhāna meditation were nearly lost. In Yogāvacara, Paul Dennison explores these too-long neglected practices from a variety of angles and makes a compelling case for their vital importance to Buddhist practice. Having studied with one of the first Thai meditation teachers in England, practiced for decades in the UK's Samatha Trust meditation tradition, and published a peer-reviewed study on the effects of jhāna meditation on the brain, Paul Dennison brings a lifetime of scholarly and personal insight to a subject that Westerners are only beginning to understand. Employing traditional Buddhist doctrine, teachings from lesser-known meditation texts such as The Yogāvacara's Manual, and findings from his neuroscience research, Yogāvacara offers a vision rooted in the ancient past yet oriented to our present age"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aMeditation _xBuddhism.
650		0	_aNeurosciences _xReligious aspects _xBuddhism. _923797
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