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The birth of insight : meditation, modern Buddhism, and the Burmese monk Ledi Sayadaw
- Title
- The birth of insight : meditation, modern Buddhism, and the Burmese monk Ledi Sayadaw / Erik Braun.
- Author
- Braun, Erik, 1972-
- Publication
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
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Details
- Description
- xvi, 257 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Buddhism and modernity
- Uniform Title
- Buddhism and modernity.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Ledi Sayadaw and the gifts of the Buddha -- The best of times and the worst: Ledi Sayadaw's formative period -- The great war of the commentaries: Ledi Sayadaw's Abhidhamma controversy -- "In the hands of all the people": Ledi empowers the laity -- "In this very life": lay study of the Abhidhamma -- The birth of insight -- Conclusion: the death of Ledi and the life of insight.
- Call Number
- JFE 14-1700
- ISBN
- 9780226000800 (hardcover)
- 022600080X (hardcover)
- 9780226000947 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2013014690
- OCLC
- 841199161
- Author
- Braun, Erik, 1972-
- Title
- The birth of insight : meditation, modern Buddhism, and the Burmese monk Ledi Sayadaw / Erik Braun.
- Publisher
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Buddhism and modernityBuddhism and modernity.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 14-1700