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Knowing Body, Moving Mind - Ritualizing and Learning at Two Buddhist Centers (Paperback)
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Knowing Body, Moving Mind - Ritualizing and Learning at Two Buddhist Centers (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Ritual Studies
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Knowing Body, Moving Mind investigates ritualizing and learning in
introductory meditation classes at two Buddhist centers in Toronto,
Canada. The centers, Friends of the Heart and Chandrakirti, are led
and attended by Western (sometimes called "convert') Buddhists:
that is, people from non-Buddhist familial and cultural
backgrounds. Inspired by theories that suggest that rituals impart
new knowledge or understanding, Patricia Campbell examines how
introductory meditation students learn through formal Buddhist
practice. Along the way, she also explores practitioners' reasons
for enrolling in meditation classes, their interests in Buddhism,
and their responses to formal Buddhist practices and to ritual in
general.
Based on ethnographic interviews and participant-observation
fieldwork, the text follows interview participants' reflections on
what they learned in meditation classes and through personal
practice, and what roles meditation and other ritual practices
played in that learning. Participants' learning experiences are
illuminated by an influential learning theory called Bloom's
Taxonomy, while the rites and practices taught and performed at the
centers are explored using performance theory, a method which
focuses on the performative elements of ritual's postures and
gestures. But the study expands the performance framework as well,
by demonstrating that performative ritualizing includes the
concentration techniques that take place in a meditator's mind.
Such techniques are received as traditional mental acts or
behaviors that are standardized, repetitively performed, and
variously regarded as special, elevated, spiritual or religious.
Having established a link between mental and physical forms of
ritualizing, the study then demonstrates that the repetitive mental
techniques of meditation practice train the mind to develop new
skills in the same way that physical postures and gestures train
the body. The mind is thus experienced as both embodied and
gestural, and the whole of the body as socially and ritually
informed.
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