Introduction to Buddhist meditation / Sarah Shaw with a chapter on Tibet by Georgios Halkias.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shaw, Sarah (Scholar of Buddhism)

Contributor:

Halkias, Georgios, 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Meditation--Buddhism.

Meditation.

Physical Description:

xvi, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.

Contents:

Key xiii

Three kinds of Buddhism xv

1 The Eightfold Path and Meditation 1

2 Early Buddhist Guidance on Meditation 18

3 Tracing Back Radiance: Some features of the early Buddhist understanding of the mind 41

4 Buddhaghosa and the forty objects of meditation 67

5 Chanting, Paying Respects and Devotional Ritual 92

6 Meditation and Southern Buddhism 111

7 Developments in Early Indian Buddhism 140

8 Buddhist Meditation Traditions in Tibet: The Union of the Three Vehicles, A Tibetan perspective (written by Georgias Halkias) 159

9 Meditation in China 187

10 Meditation in Korea and Vietnam 217

11 Meditation in Japan 232

12 Meditation Around the World 257

Appendix A Numbers of Meditators in the World 285

Appendix B Postures of the Buddha 287.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415408998

0415408997

9780415409001

0415409004

9780203893227

0203893220

OCLC:

191258670