Meditation in modern Buddhism : renunciation and change in Thai monastic life /
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| Author / Creator: | Cook, Joanna, 1978- |
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| Imprint: | New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010. |
| Description: | ix, 214 p. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8209765 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- List of map and figures
- Notes on language
- 1. Meditation and monasticism: making the ascetic self in Thailand
- 2. Meditation and religious reform
- 3. The monastic community: duty and structure
- 4. Meditation as ethical imperative
- 5. Language and meditation
- 6. Monastic duty, mindfulness and cognitive space
- 7. Money, mae chee and reciprocity
- 8. Hierarchy, gender and mindfulness
- 9. Monasticization and the ascetic interiority of non-self
- Appendix: Ordination transcript for an eight-precept nun (mae chee)
- Bibliography
- Index