The promise of the universal: non-Buddhists' accounts of their Vipassanā meditation retreat experiences
Since the 1970s non-Buddhist Westerners have been writing detailed descriptions of their personal experiences in vipassanā meditation retreat settings. These memoirs illustrate that meditation is positioned as a universal practice that is constructed as objective and empirically valid, but at the sa...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Published: |
[2019]
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| In: |
Religion
Year: 2019, Volume: 49, Issue: 4, Pages: 636-660 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Western world
/ Vipaśyanā
/ Experience
/ Experience account
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| RelBib Classification: | AE Psychology of religion AG Religious life; material religion BL Buddhism |
| Further subjects: | B
memoir
B Buddhism B Autobiography B Meditation B Religions |
| Online Access: |
Volltext (Resolving-System) |
