| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Entering a landscape of mindfulness -- Monks' mindfulness -- The feeling of mindfulness in meditation -- Power and the ghostly politics of sanity in lay Thai life -- Burma : a cave in the woods, and a grain of sand -- Sri Lanka : the moralized focus and a thieving cat -- Conclusion : Asia and the United States |
| Summary |
"Explores the Buddhist concept of mindfulness and how it varies in the Buddhist cultures of three Southeast Asia cities in three countries: Chiang Mai, Thailand; Kandy, Sri Lanka; and Mandalay, Burma. The research is from the author's in-depth participant observation and fieldwork and includes the experiences of over 600 monks, psychiatrists, students, and villagers in monasteries, hospitals, and homes in these areas"-- Provided by publisher |
| Analysis |
psychiatry, Theravada, Burma, Sri Lanka, Sati, temporality |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher |
| Subject |
Buddhism -- Thailand -- Chiang Mai -- Customs and practices
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Buddhism -- Sri Lanka -- Kandy -- Customs and practices
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Buddhism -- Burma -- Mandalay -- Customs and practices
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Mindfulness (Psychology) -- Thailand -- Chiang Mai
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Mindfulness (Psychology) -- Sri Lanka -- Kandy
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Mindfulness (Psychology) -- Burma -- Mandalay
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Meditation -- TheravÄda Buddhism
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RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
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RELIGION -- Buddhism -- Theravada.
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Buddhism -- Customs and practices
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Mindfulness (Psychology)
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Burma -- Mandalay
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Sri Lanka -- Kandy
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Thailand -- Chiang Mai
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2017054552 |
| ISBN |
9781501714160 |
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1501714163 |
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9781501714177 |
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1501714171 |
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150170799X |
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9781501707995 |
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9781501709173 |
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1501709178 |
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