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Hindu, Buddhist and Daoist Meditation

Eifring, Halvor [Hrsg.]:
Hindu, Buddhist and Daoist Meditation : Cultural Histories / Halvor Eifring (ed.). - Oslo : Hermes Academic Publishing, 2014.
ISBN 978-82-8034-201-0
EUR 18,00
DDC: 204.35

Beschreibung
Large waves of global interest in meditation over the last half century have all focused on techniques stemming from Hinduism, Buddhism and Daoism. This collection of essays explores selected topics from the historical traditions underlying such practices.
   The book ventures far beyond the well-known Hindu repetition of sounds, Buddhist attention to breath and body, and Daoist movement of limbs and bodily energies. A picture emerges of meditative traditions that are much richer and more diverse than our modern viewpoint typically acknowledges. Many of the practices are also shown to be of greater cultural relevance than commonly recognized. [ACEM]

Inhalt
Halvor Eifring and Are Holen:
The Uses of Attention: Elements of Meditative Practice
Johannes Bronkhorst:
Can There Be a Cultural History of Meditation? With Special Reference to India
Jens Braarvig:
Words for “Meditation” in Classical Yoga and Early Buddhism
Bettina Bäumer ‘Sharada’:
“Creative Contemplation” (Bhāvanā) in the Vijñāna Bhairava Tantra
Bhikkhu Anālayo:
The First Absorption (Dhyāna) in Early Indian Buddhism: A Study of Source Material from the Madhyama-āgama
Gustaaf Houtman:
Vipassanā in Burma: Self-government and the Ledi Ānāpāna Tradition
Bart Dessein:
Contemplation of the Repulsive: Bones and Skulls as Objects of Meditation
Stephen Eskildsen:
Red Snakes and Angry Queen Mothers: Hallucinations and Epiphanies in Medieval Daoist Meditation
Louis Komjathy:
Daoist Clepsydra-Meditation: Late Medieval Quánzhēn Monasticism and Communal Meditation

Herausgeber
HALVOR EIFRING, Professor of East Asia Studies, University of Oslo. Profile page.

Quellen: ACEM; Mitteilung in der Mailing-Liste "H-Buddhism" vom 15. Febr. 2014
Bildquelle: ACEM
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