Remembering the Present : Mindfulness in Buddhist Asia / J.L. Cassaniti.
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TextPublication details: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.Description: 297 pages : 23 cmContent type: - text
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- Buddhism -- Burma -- Mandalay -- Customs and practices
- Buddhism -- Sri Lanka -- Kandy -- Customs and practices
- Buddhism -- Thailand -- Chiang Mai -- Customs and practices
- Meditation -- Theravada Buddhism
- Mindfulness (Psychology) -- Burma -- Mandalay
- Mindfulness (Psychology) -- Sri Lanka -- Kandy
- Mindfulness (Psychology) -- Thailand -- Chiang Mai
- 294.3910959 JUL
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Center for Khmer Studies | RR SEAS Collection | 294.3910959 JUL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | CKS23080030 |
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| 294.391 LES Theravada Buddhism in Southeast Asia | 294.391 NAS Anthropological studies in Theravada Buddhism | 294.391092 BRO The journey of one Buddhist nun even against the wind | 294.3910959 JUL Remembering the Present : Mindfulness in Buddhist Asia / | 294.39109596 KEN People of virtue reconfiguring religion, power and moral order in Cambodia today | 294.3923 CON Buddhist texts through the ages | 294.3923 MAJ Buddhist, Hybrid, Tantric and Tibetan deities |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"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 includes the experiences of over 600 monks, psychiatrists, students, and villagers in monasteries, hospitals, and homes in these areas"-- Provided by publisher.
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