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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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Ithaca London
Cornell University Press
2018
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| In: | Year: 2018 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Chiang Mại
/ Kandy
/ Mandalay
/ Theravada
/ Watchfulness
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| Further subjects: | B
Mindfulness (Psychology) (Burma) (Mandalay)
B Mindfulness (Psychology) B Mindfulness (Psychology) (Thailand) (Chiang Mai) B Buddhism B Mindfulness (Psychology) (Sri Lanka) (Kandy) B Buddhism (Thailand) (Chiang Mai) Customs and practices B Buddhism (Sri Lanka) (Kandy) Customs and practices B Buddhism (Burma) (Mandalay) Customs and practices B Meditation Theravāda Buddhism |
| Parallel Edition: | Electronic
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| Summary: | "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 includes the experiences of over 600 monks, psychiatrists, students, and villagers in monasteries, hospitals, and homes in these areas"-- 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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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1501709178 |