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Mindfulness in Early Buddhism - New Approaches through Psychology and Textual Analysis of Pali, Chinese and Sanskrit Sources (Paperback)
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Mindfulness in Early Buddhism - New Approaches through Psychology and Textual Analysis of Pali, Chinese and Sanskrit Sources (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
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This book identifies what is meant by sati (smrti), usually
translated as 'mindfulness', in early Buddhism, and examines its
soteriological functions and its central role in the early Buddhist
practice and philosophy. Using textual analysis and criticism, it
takes new approaches to the subject through a comparative study of
Buddhist texts in Pali, Chinese and Sanskrit. It also furnishes new
perspectives on the ancient teaching by applying the findings in
modern psychology. In contemporary Buddhism, the practice of
mindfulness is zealously advocated by the Theravada tradition,
which is the only early Buddhist school that still exists today.
Through detailed analysis of Theravada's Pali Canon and the four
Chinese Agamas - which correspond to the four main Nikayas in Pali
and belong to some early schools that no longer exist - this book
shows that mindfulness is not only limited to the role as a method
of insight (vipassana) meditation, as presented by many Theravada
advocates, but it also has a key role in serenity (samatha)
meditation. It elucidates how mindfulness functions in the path to
liberation from a psychological perspective, that is, how it helps
to achieve an optimal cognitive capability and emotional state, and
thereby enables one to attain the ultimate religious goal.
Furthermore, the author argues that the well-known formula of
ekaayano maggo, which is often interpreted as 'the only way',
implies that the four satipa.t.thaanas (establishments of
mindfulness) constitute a comprehensive path to liberation, and
refer to the same as kaayagataa sati, which has long been
understood as 'mindfulness of the body' by the tradition. The
analysis shows that kaayagataa sati and the four satipa.t.thaanas
are two different ways of formulating the teaching on mindfulness
according to different schemes of classification of phenomena.
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