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Braun, E: Birth of Insight - Meditation, Modern Buddhism, an
Meditation, Modern Buddhism, and the Burmese Monk Ledi Sayadaw
Taschenbuch von Erik Braun
Sprache: Englisch

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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 explores Ledi's popularization of the study of crucial Buddhist philosophical texts in the early twentieth century. By promoting the study of such abstruse texts, Braun shows, Ledi was able to standardize and simplify meditation methods and make them widely accessible-in part to protect Buddhism in Burma after the British takeover in 1885. Braun also addresses the question of what really constitutes the "modern" in colonial and postcolonial forms of Buddhism, arguing that the emergence of this type of meditation was caused by precolonial factors in Burmese culture as well as the disruptive forces of the colonial era. Offering a readable narrative of the life and legacy of one of modern Buddhism's most important figures, The Birth of Insight provides an original account of the development of mass meditation.
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 explores Ledi's popularization of the study of crucial Buddhist philosophical texts in the early twentieth century. By promoting the study of such abstruse texts, Braun shows, Ledi was able to standardize and simplify meditation methods and make them widely accessible-in part to protect Buddhism in Burma after the British takeover in 1885. Braun also addresses the question of what really constitutes the "modern" in colonial and postcolonial forms of Buddhism, arguing that the emergence of this type of meditation was caused by precolonial factors in Burmese culture as well as the disruptive forces of the colonial era. Offering a readable narrative of the life and legacy of one of modern Buddhism's most important figures, The Birth of Insight provides an original account of the development of mass meditation.
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Buddhism and Modernity
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780226418575
ISBN-10: 022641857X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Braun, Erik
Hersteller: University of Chicago Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Abbildungen: , black & white illustrations
Maße: 228 x 149 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Erik Braun
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.08.2016
Gewicht: 0,367 kg
Artikel-ID: 129725339
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Buddhism and Modernity
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780226418575
ISBN-10: 022641857X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Braun, Erik
Hersteller: University of Chicago Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Abbildungen: , black & white illustrations
Maße: 228 x 149 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Erik Braun
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.08.2016
Gewicht: 0,367 kg
Artikel-ID: 129725339
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