Remembering the present : mindfulness in Buddhist Asia /

Remembering the present : mindfulness in Buddhist Asia /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Cassaniti, Julia, author.
Imprint:	Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018. ©2018
Description:	xiv, 297 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Buddhism -- Thailand -- Chiang Mai -- Customs and practices. Buddhism -- Sri Lanka -- Kandy -- Customs and practices. Buddhism -- Burma -- Mandalay -- Customs and practices. Mindfulness (Psychology) -- Thailand -- Chiang Mai. Mindfulness (Psychology) -- Sri Lanka -- Kandy. Mindfulness (Psychology) -- Burma -- Mandalay. Meditation -- Theravāda Buddhism. Buddhism -- Customs and practices. Mindfulness (Psychology) Burma -- Mandalay. Sri Lanka -- Kandy. Thailand -- Chiang Mai.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11456150

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ISBN:	9781501707995 150170799X 9781501709173 1501709178
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Explores the Buddhist concept of mindfulness and how it varies in the Buddhist cultures of three Southeast Asia cities in three countries: Chiang Mai, Thailand; Kandy, Sri Lanka; and Mandalay, Burma. The research is from the author's in-depth participant observation and fieldwork and includes the experiences of over 600 monks, psychiatrists, students, and villagers in monasteries, hospitals, and homes in these areas"--
Other form:	Online version: Cassaniti, Julia. Remembering the present. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018 9781501714177

Table of Contents:

Entering a landscape of mindfulness
Monks' mindfulness
The feeling of mindfulness in meditation
Power and the ghostly politics of sanity in lay Thai life
Burma : a cave in the woods, and a grain of sand
Sri Lanka : the moralized focus and a thieving cat
Conclusion : Asia and the United States.