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The Birth of Insight. Meditation, Modern Buddhism, and the Burmese Monk Ledi Sayadaw.
Erik Braun
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Description for The Birth of Insight. Meditation, Modern Buddhism, and the Burmese Monk Ledi Sayadaw.
Paperback. Series: Buddhism and Modernity. Num Pages: 280 pages, , black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HREP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 367.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Series
Buddhism and Modernity
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226418575
SKU
V9780226418575
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About Erik Braun
Erik Braun is assistant professor in the Religious Studies Program at the University of Oklahoma. He lives in Norman, OK.
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