Birth of Insight Meditation, Modern Buddhism, and the Burmese Monk Ledi Sayadaw

Name: Birth of Insight Meditation, Modern Buddhism, and the Burmese Monk Ledi Sayadaw
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ISBN: 9780226000800

ISBN-10: 022600080X

ISBN-13: 9780226000800

Edition: 2013

Authors: Erik Braun

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Insight meditation, which claims to offer practitioners a chance to escape all suffering by perceiving the true nature of reality, is one of the most popular forms of meditation today. The Theravada Buddhist cultures of South and Southeast Asia often see it as the Buddha’s most important gift to humanity. In the first book to examine how this practice came to play such a dominant—and relatively recent—role in Buddhism, Erik Braun takes readers to Burma, revealing that Burmese Buddhists in the colonial period were pioneers in making insight meditation indispensable to modern Buddhism. Braun focuses on the Burmese monk Ledi Sayadaw, a pivotal architect of modern insight meditation, and…

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List price: $99.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/19/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 280
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.91" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 1.122

Alberto Toscano teaches in the Department of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the author of Fanaticism and The Theatre of Production and the translator of several books by Alain Badiou.ï¿½Erik Braun is assistant professor in the Religious Studies Program at the University of Oklahoma.