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Remembering the Present : Mindfulness in Buddhist Asia /

"Explores the Buddhist concept of mindfulness and how it varies in the Buddhist cultures of three Southeast Asia cities in three countries: Chiang Mai, Thailand; Kandy, Sri Lanka; and Mandalay, Burma. The research is from the author's in-depth participant observation and fieldwork and incl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Cassaniti, Julia (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Entering a landscape of mindfulness
  • Monks' mindfulness
  • The feeling of mindfulness in meditation
  • Power and the ghostly politics of sanity in lay Thai life
  • Burma : a cave in the woods, and a grain of sand
  • Sri Lanka : the moralized focus and a thieving cat
  • Conclusion : Asia and the United States.