“I am the Buddha, the Buddha is Me”: Concentration Meditation and Esoteric Modern Buddhism in Burma/Myanmar

In postcolonial Burma, two trends within lay Buddhism — largely in tension with one another — developed into large-scale movements. They focused upon different meditation practices, insight meditation and concentration meditation, with the latter also including esoteric lore. An impetus largely shar...

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Publié dans:Numen
Auteur principal: Foxeus, Niklas (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Brill 2016
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Sujets non-standardisés:B Buddhism Myanmar / Burma identity concentration meditation insight meditation
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Résumé:In postcolonial Burma, two trends within lay Buddhism — largely in tension with one another — developed into large-scale movements. They focused upon different meditation practices, insight meditation and concentration meditation, with the latter also including esoteric lore. An impetus largely shared by the movements was to define an “authentic” Buddhism to serve as the primary vehicle of the quest for individual, local, and national identity. While insight meditation was generally considered Buddhist meditation par excellence, concentration meditation was ascribed a more dubious Buddhist identity. Given this ambiguity, it could be considered rather paradoxical that concentration meditation could be viewed as a source of “authentic” Buddhism.
ISSN:1568-5276
Contient:In: Numen
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15685276-12341393