Analayo

Compassion and Emptiness in Early Buddhist Meditation (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Analayo investigates the meditative practices of compassion and emptiness by examining and interpreting material from the early Buddhist discourses.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Windhorse Publications
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781909314627
• Artikelnr.: 43446495

Autorenporträt

Bhikkhu Analayo completed a PhD on the Satipatthanasutta at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka in 2000, published in 2003 by Windhorse Publications under the title Satipatthana: The Direct Path to Realization. He has also written a habilitation research through a comparative study of the Majjhimanikaya in the light of its Chinese, Sanskrit, and Tibetan parallels at the University of Marburg in 2007, published 2011. He published Perspectives on Satipatthana in 2014, by Windhorse Publications. At present Analayo is a professor of Buddhist Studies at the Sri Lanka International Academy in Pallekele. He teaches at the Center for Buddhist Studies of the University of Hamburg and researches at the Dharma Drum Buddhist College in Taiwan. His main research area is early Buddhism and in particular the topics "Chinese Agamas," "Meditation," and "Women in Buddhism." Besides his academic pursuits, he spends about half of his time in meditation under retreat conditions and regularly teaches meditation courses in Asia and the West.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents:
Introduction
Chapter I Cultivating Compassion
1 The Nature of Compassion
2 Compassion and Morality
3 Compassion and the Four Noble Truths
4 Compassion and Teaching
5 Compassion and Seclusion
6 Compassion in Meditation
7 The Objects of Meditative Compassion
8 Summary
Chapter II Contextualizing Compassion
1 Benevolence
2 Kindness in Daily Conduct
3 Facing Aggression
4 Mental Beauty
5 Compassion and Sympathetic Joy
6 Compassion and Equipoise
7 Compassion and the Other Divine Abodes
8 Summary
Chapter III Maturing Compassion
1 The Benefits of Benevolence
2 Compassion and Absorption
3 Compassion and Karma
4 Compassion and Insight
5 Compassion and the Awakening Factors
6 Compassion and Infinite Space
7 Summary
Chapter IV Empty Matter
1 The Nature of Being Empty
2 A Gradual Meditative Entry into Emptiness
3 Earth
4 Infinite Space
5 Infinite Space and Compassion
6 Summary
Chapter V Empty Mind
1 Infinite Consciousness
2 The Nature of Consciousness
3 Dependent Arising
4 The Bahiya Instruction
5 Emptiness in Daily Life
6 Summary
Chapter VI Empty of Self
1 Nothingness
2 Imperturbability
3 Not-self
4 Signlessness
5 Realization of Emptiness
6 The Dynamics of Emptiness
7 Summary
Chapter VII Practical Instructions
1 Laying the Foundation
2 Compassion and the Other Divine Abodes
3 The Radiation Practice
4 Emptiness Meditation
5 Summary
Chapter VIII Translations
1 The Madhyama-agama parallel to the Karajakaya-sutta
2 The Madhyama-agama parallel to the Cuasuññata-sutta
3 The Madhyama-agama parallel to the Mahasuññata-sutta
Abbreviations and References