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020			_a9781611807943 _q(trade paperback)
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050	0	0	_aBQ5630.B67 _bC76 2020
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100	1		_aCrosby, Kate _c(Religion scholar), _eauthor. _96893
245	1	0	_aEsoteric Theravada : _bthe story of the forgotten meditation tradition of Southeast Asia / _cKate Crosby.
250			_aFirst edition.
260			_aBoulder, Colorado : _bShambhala Publications, Inc., _c[2020]
264		1	_aBoulder, Colorado : _bShambhala Publications, Inc., _c[2020]
300			_axi, 303 pages ; _c22 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [271]-286) and index.
505	0		_aThe 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.
520			_a"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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aBorān kammaṭṭhāna. _96894
650		0	_aTheravāda Buddhism _zSoutheast Asia _xHistory. _96895
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