Remembering the present : mindfulness in Buddhist Asia

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.
Subjects:
Buddhism > Thailand > Chiang Mai > Customs and practices.
Buddhism > Sri Lanka > Kandy > Customs and practices.
Buddhism > Burma > Mandalay > Customs and practices.
Mindfulness (Psychology) > Thailand > Chiang Mai.
Mindfulness (Psychology) > Sri Lanka > Kandy.
Mindfulness (Psychology) > Burma > Mandalay.
Meditation > Theravāda Buddhism.
Table of Contents:
  • 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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