Meditative practice lies at the heart of the Buddhist tradition.
This introductory anthology gives a representative sample of the
various kinds of meditations described in the earliest body of
Buddhist scripture, the Pali canon.
It provides a broad introduction to their traditional context
and practice and supplies explanation, context and doctrinal
background to the subject of meditation. The main themes of the
book are the diversity and flexibility of the way that the Buddha
teaches meditation from the evidence of the canon. Covering
fundamental features of Buddhist practice such as posture, lay
meditation, and meditative technique it provides comments both from
the principal early commentators on Buddhist practice, Upatissa and
Buddhaghosa, and from reputable modern meditation teachers in a
number of Theravadin traditions.
This is the first book on Pali Buddhism which introduces the
reader to the wide range of the canon. It demonstrates that the
Buddha's meditative tradition still offers a path of practice as
mysterious, awe-inspiring yet as freshly accessible as it was
centuries ago, and will be of interest to students and scholars of
Buddhism as well as Buddhist practitioners.
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