Introduction to Buddhist Meditation

by Shaw; Sarah

• ISBN13: 9780415409001
• ISBN10: 0415409004
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-10-13
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Sarah Shawa (TM)s lively introduction to Buddhist meditation offers students and practitioners alike a deeper understanding of what meditation is, and its purpose and place in the context of different Buddhist schools. She describes the historical background to the geographical spread of Buddhism, and examines the way in which some meditative practices developed as this process occurred. Other chapters cover basic meditative practice, types of meditation, meditation in different regions, meditation and do

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. viii
Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Key	p. xiii
Three kinds of Buddhism	p. xv
The Eightfold Path and Meditation	p. 1
Early Buddhist Guidance on Meditation	p. 18
Tracing Back Radiance: Some features of the early Buddhist understanding of the mind	p. 41
Buddhaghosa and the forty objects of meditation	p. 67
Chanting, Paying Respects and Devotional Ritual	p. 92
Meditation and Southern Buddhism	p. 111
Developments in Early Indian Buddhism	p. 140
Buddhist Meditation Traditions in Tibet: The Union of the Three Vehicles, A Tibetan perspective (written by Georgias Halkias)	p. 159
Meditation in China	p. 187
Meditation in Korea and Vietnam	p. 217
Meditation in Japan	p. 232
Meditation Around the World	p. 257
Brief Glossary	p. 278
Numbers of Meditators in the World	p. 285
Postures of the Buddha	p. 287
Index	p. 288
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