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Asian Traditions of Meditation (Paperback)
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Asian Traditions of Meditation (Paperback)
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Meditation has flourished in different parts of the world ever
since the foundations of the great civilizations were laid. It
played a vital role in the formation of Asian cultures that trace
much of their heritage to ancient India and China. This volume
brings together for the first time studies of the major traditions
of Asian meditation as well as material on scientific approaches to
meditation. It delves deeply into the individual traditions while
viewing each of them from a global perspective, examining both
historical and generic connections between meditative practices
from numerous historical periods and different parts of the
Eurasian continent. It seeks to identify the cultural and
historical peculiarities of Asian schools of meditation while
recognizing basic features of meditative practice across cultures,
thereby taking the first step toward a framework for the
comparative study of meditation. The book, accessibly written by
scholars from several fields, opens with chapters that discuss the
definition and classification of meditation. These are followed by
contributions on Yoga and Tantra, which are often subsumed under
the broad label of Hinduism; Jainism and Sikhism, Indian traditions
not usually associated with meditation; Buddhist approaches found
in Southeast Asia, Tibet, and China; and the indigenous Chinese
traditions, Daoism and Neo-Confucianism. The final chapter explores
recent scientific interest in meditation, which, despite its
Western orientation, remains almost exclusively concerned with
practices of Asian origin. Until a few years ago a major obstacle
to the study of specific meditation practices within the traditions
explored here was a widespread scholarly orientation that
prioritized doctrinal issues and sociocultural contexts over actual
practice. The contributors seek to counter this bias and supplement
concerns over doctrine and context with the historical study of
meditative practice. Asian Traditions of Meditation will appeal
broadly to readers interested in meditation, mindfulness, and
spirituality and those in the emerging field of contemplative
education, as well as students and scholars of Asian and religious
studies.
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