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Title

• Buddhist meditative praxis : traditional teachings & modern applications / editor, KL Dhammajoti 法光.
• Buddhist meditative praxis : traditional teachings & modern applications / editor, KL Dhammajoti Faguang.

Publication

Hong Kong : Centre of Buddhist Studies, The University of Hong Kong, 2015.

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Additional Authors

• Cousins, L. S.
• Dhammajoti, Kuala Lumpur
• University of Hong Kong. Centre of Buddhist Studies.

Description

xiii, 307 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

HKU: CBS publication series

Uniform Title

Centre of Buddhist Studies publication series (University of Hong Kong)

Subjects

• Meditation > Buddhism
• Buddhism > Doctrines

Note

• "This publication is sponsored by Tung Lin Kok Yuen"--Title page verso.
• "HKU, CBS publication series."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-307).

Contents

Part I. Buddhist meditative praxis: history, doctrines and philosophical implications. The Sutta on mindfulness with in and out breathing / L.S. Cousins -- Prajñā-vimukta, ubhayatobhāga-vimukta and vimokṣāvaraṇa : the sarvāstivāda perspective / KL Dhammajoti -- The sevenfold purification (sattavisuddhi) as the structural framework of the Visuddhimagga : some observations / Toshiichi Endo -- Jitāri on Backward Causation (bhāvikāraṇavāda) / Eli Franco -- The role of meditation in the threefold scheme of Buddhist mental culture / Y Karunadasa -- A reexamination of on being mindless : possible Meditative implications of the eightfold proof of Ālayavijñāna / Nobuyoshi Yamabe -- The diachronic and synchronic relationship between philosophical theory and spiritual praxis in Buddhism: with special reference to the case of the four applications of mindfulness (smṛtyupasthāna: dran pa nye bar gzhag pa) in Vajrayāna / Dorji Wangchuk -- Central Asian meditation manuals / Charles Willemen -- Do meditation manuals / Charles Willemen -- Do meditative objects exist? / Zhihua Yao -- Part II. Buddhist meditative praxis: modern applications and interdisciplinary studies. A Chinese Chan-based intervention : a way to improve the mind and body / Agnes, Sui Yin Chan -- Neurodharma: practicing with the brain in mind / Rick Hanson -- Can meditation change our brain? / Tatia M. C. Lee, Natalic T. Y. Leung -- The importance of the Buddhist teaching on three kinds of knowing : in a school-based contemplative education program / Hin Hung Sik, Bonnie Wai Yan Wu -- Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for depression / Mark Williams.

ISBN

• 9789881684332
• 9881684331

OCLC

• ocn911984676
• 911984676
• SCSB-5824932

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries