Remembering the Present : Mindfulness in Buddhist Asia /

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"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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Main Author: Cassaniti, Julia (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Mindfulness (Psychology)
Buddhism > Customs and practices.
RELIGION > Buddhism > Theravada.
RELIGION > Comparative Religion.
Pleine conscience (Psychologie) > Birmanie > Mandalay.
Pleine conscience (Psychologie) > Sri Lanka > Kandy.
Pleine conscience (Psychologie) > Thaïlande > Chiangmai.
Bouddhisme > Birmanie > Mandalay > Coutumes et pratiques.
Bouddhisme > Sri Lanka > Kandy > Coutumes et pratiques.
Bouddhisme > Thaïlande > Chiangmai > Coutumes et pratiques.
Meditation > Theravāda Buddhism.
Mindfulness (Psychology) > Burma > Mandalay.
Mindfulness (Psychology) > Sri Lanka > Kandy.
Mindfulness (Psychology) > Thailand > Chiang Mai.
Buddhism > Burma > Mandalay > Customs and practices.
Buddhism > Sri Lanka > Kandy > Customs and practices.
Buddhism > Thailand > Chiang Mai > Customs and practices.
Thailand > Chiang Mai.
Sri Lanka > Kandy.
Burma > Mandalay.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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