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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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2018.
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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.