The birth of insight : meditation, modern Buddhism, and the Burmese monk Ledi Sayadaw /

Insight meditation, which claims to offer practitioners a chance to escape all suffering by perceiving the true nature of reality, is one of the most popular forms of meditation today. The Theravada Buddhist cultures of South and Southeast Asia often see it as the Buddha's most important gift t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Braun, Erik, 1972- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
Colección:Buddhism and modernity.
Temas:
Ñāṇa, > Ledi Cha rā toʻ, > 1846 or 1847-1923 or 1924.
Ñāṇa, > Ledi Cha rā toʻ, > 1846 or 1847-1923 or 1924
Ledi Sayadaw > 1846-1923
Meditation > Buddhism.
Dharma (Buddhism)
Dharma (Bouddhisme)
RELIGION > Comparative Religion.
Meditation > Buddhism
Meditation
Therawada
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Insight meditation, which claims to offer practitioners a chance to escape all suffering by perceiving the true nature of reality, is one of the most popular forms of meditation today. The Theravada Buddhist cultures of South and Southeast Asia often see it as the Buddha's most important gift to humanity. In the first book to examine how this practice came to play such a dominant-and relatively recent-role in Buddhism, Erik Braun takes readers to Burma, revealing that Burmese Buddhists in the colonial period were pioneers in making insight meditation indispensable to modern Buddhism. </DI.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xvi, 257 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-248) and index.
ISBN:9780226000947
022600094X

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