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Of all the forms of Buddhist practice none offers a better insight into the nature of Buddhism than meditation.
In January 1969 an unusual workshop was held at Oberlin College in Ohio-an experimental project in Buddhist meditation. It brought together a Thai Buddhist meditation teacher, the Venerable Chao Khun Sobhana Dhammasudhi, and a Zen priest, the Reverend Eshin Nishimura, to share with Professor Donald K. Swearer in instructing a group of students in the ...
This work brings together in a single volume the translated essays of Buddhadasa Bhikku, the major interpreter of Theravada Buddhism in southeast Asia. "This is an excellent exposition of present day Theravada Buddhism by a native Thai master. A book of this nature is quite rare to find, especially coming from a living scholar and practitioner. Buddhadasa's interpretation is innovative and thus controversial to traditionalists but it deals frankly with ...
Becoming the Buddha is the first study of a key ritual of Buddhist practice in Asia: the consecration of a Buddha imae or "new Buddha," a ceremony by which the Buddha becomes present or alive. Through a richly detailed, accessible exploration of this ritual in northern Thailand, an exploration that stands apart from standard text-based or anthropological approaches, Donald Swearer makes a major contribution to our understanding of the Buddha ...