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Asian traditions of meditation / edited by Halvor Eifring

Published
Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2016]
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xv, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Additional Creators
Eifring, Halvor

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Contents
What is meditation? / Halvor Eifring -- Types of meditation / Halvor Eifring -- Samadhi in the yoga sutras / Edwin F. Bryant -- Yantra and cakra in tantric meditation / Madhu Khanna -- The history of Jaina meditation / Johannes Bronkhorst -- Nam Simran in the Sikh religion / Kristina Myrvold -- Meditation objects in Pali Buddhist texts / Sarah Shaw -- Tibetan longevity meditation / Geoffrey Samuel -- Kanhua meditation in Chinese Zen / Morten Schlutter -- Meditation in the classical Daoist tradition / Harold D. Roth -- "Quiet sitting" in neo-Confucianism / Masaya Mabuchi -- The science of meditation / Are Holen.
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ISBN
9780824855680 (cloth ; alk. paper)
082485568X
Note
Includes index.
View MARC record | catkey: 19142833