This ethnographic account of a Northern Thai monastery examines meditation in detail and analyzes the motivation and experience of renouncers.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Joanna Cook is George Kingsley Roth Research Fellow in Southeast Asian Studies, Christ's College, University of Cambridge.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Meditation and monasticism: making the ascetic self in Thailand 2. Sectarianism, centralization and the propagation of meditation 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.
1. Meditation and monasticism: making the ascetic self in Thailand 2. Sectarianism, centralization and the propagation of meditation 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.
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