Remembering the present : mindfulness in Buddhist Asia / J.L. Cassaniti.

"Explores the Buddhist concept of mindfulness and how it varies in the Buddhist cultures of three Southeast Asia cities in three countries: Chiang Mai, Thailand; Kandy, Sri Lanka; and Mandalay, Burma. The research is from the author's in-depth participant observation and fieldwork and incl...

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Main Author: Cassaniti, Julia (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.
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505 0 |a Entering a landscape of mindfulness -- Monks' mindfulness -- The feeling of mindfulness in meditation -- Power and the ghostly politics of sanity in lay Thai life -- Burma : a cave in the woods, and a grain of sand -- Sri Lanka : the moralized focus and a thieving cat -- Conclusion : Asia and the United States. 
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