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Meditation and culture : the interplay of practice and context /
Behind the stereotype of a solitary meditator closing his eyes to the world, meditation always takes place in close interaction with the surrounding culture. Meditation and Culture: The Interplay of Practice and Context explores cases in which the relation between meditative practice and cultural co...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2015.
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| Edición: | 1 [edition]. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Meditative Practice and Cultural Context
- Section 1: Traveling Practices
- 2 The Daoist Adaptation of Buddhist Insight Meditation
- 3 Ignatian Visual Meditation in Seventeenth-Century China
- 4 Modern Meditation in the Context of Science
- Section 2: Competing Practices
- 5 Mindfulness and Mindlessness in Early Chán
- 6 Reverence and Quietude in Neo-Confucianism
- 7 Meditative Pluralism in Hanshan Déqing
- Section 3: Competing Cultures
- 8 The Hindi Sants' Two Yogic Paths to the Formless Lord
- 9 Inner Islamization in Java
- 10 Cinnabar-field Meditation in Korea
- Section 4: Cultural Mosaics
- 11 Tibetan Chöd as Practiced by Ani Lochen Rinpoche
- 12 Vedic Chanting as a Householder's Meditation Practice in the Tamil Saiva Siddhanta Tradition
- 13 Spontaneous Thoughts in Meditative Traditions
- Notes
- References.