Tradition and Experimentation: the Development of the Samatha Trust

Theravāda Buddhism has travelled. This article gives some history of the practice of samatha breathing mindfulness, in the Theravāda tradition, in the UK. It first gives some background in Britain to the arrival of the meditation in the 1960s, then summarises the life of Nai Boonman Poonyathiro, who...

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Main Author: Shaw, Sarah (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge [2019]
In: Contemporary buddhism
Year: 2019, Volume: 20, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 346-371
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