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Esoteric Theravada: The Story of the Forgotten Meditation Tradition of Southeast Asia

Esoteric Theravada: The Story of the Forgotten Meditation Tradition of Southeast Asia

Crosby, Kate

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BuddhismSoutheast Asian History

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ISBN10: 1611807948
ISBN13: 9781611807943
Publisher: Shambhala
Published: Dec 22 2020
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
A groundbreaking exploration of a practice tradition that was nearly lost to history.

Theravada Buddhism, often understood as the school that most carefully preserved the practices taught by the Buddha, has undergone tremendous change over time. Prior to Western colonialism in Asia--which brought Western and modernist intellectual concerns, such as the separation of science and religion, to bear on Buddhism--there existed a tradition of embodied, esoteric, and culturally regional Theravada meditation practices. This once-dominant traditional meditation system, known as borān kammatthāna, is related to--yet remarkably distinct from--Vipassana and other Buddhist and secular mindfulness practices that would become the hallmark of Theravada Buddhism in the twentieth century. Drawing on a quarter century of research, scholar Kate Crosby offers the first holistic discussion of borān kammatthāna, illuminating the historical events and cultural processes by which the practice has been marginalized in the modern era.

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