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A groundbreaking and detailed presentation of the rich system of meditation traditions that have come to us through the Pali tradition of Buddhism. Meditations of the Pali Tradition , from consummate scholar of Pali Buddhism L. S. Cousins, explores the history of meditation practice in early or Pali Buddhism, which was established in various parts of South and Central Asia from the time of the Buddha and developed until at least the fourteenth century CE. Ranging in discussion of jhana (absorption) meditation in ancient India to the Buddhist practice centers of the Silk Road to the vipassana (insight) practices of our modern world, this rigorous and insightful work of scholarship sheds new light on our understanding of the practices that are today associated with the Theravada school of Buddhism and the insight meditation movement. Cousins demonstrates that there is much more to Buddhist meditation than mindfulness alone—concentration and joy, for example,... Title Page 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 Tables and Figures 7 Editor’s Introduction by Sarah Shaw 8 Introduction 28 1. Jhāna in the Commentaries 29 2. Jhāna in the Pali Canon 51 3. Formless Attainments in the Pali Canon 70 4. The R

Author

L. S. Cousins

Publisher

Shambhala

Language

EN