Analayo

Meditator's Life of the Buddha (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Analayo offers an inspiring biography of the Buddha, focusing on his meditative development and practice, including extracts from the early discourses, with commentary by the author. He conveys not only a focus on the Buddha as a meditator, but also that the book's readers are meditators, that this is a life of the Buddha providing inspiration and guidance for meditators. Each of the twenty-four chapters concludes with suggestions for meditative practice or conduct.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Windhorse Publications
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781911407003
• Artikelnr.: 50463315

Autorenporträt

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. Analayo's published works include Satipatthana: The Direct Path to Realization (2003), Perspectives on Satipatthana (2014), Compassion and Emptiness in Early Buddhist Meditation (2015), and Mindfully Facing Disease and Death (2016).

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION
1 THE MOTIVATION TO GO FORTH
2 MORAL CONDUCT AND FEAR
3 OBSTACLES TO CONCENTRATION
4 ABSORPTION
5 THE IMMATERIAL ATTAINMENTS
6 FORCEFUL CONTROL OF THE MIND
7 BREATH CONTROL
8 FASTING
9 FINDING THE PATH
10 DETERMINATION
11 RECOLLECTION OF PAST LIVES
12 THE DIVINE EYE
13 AWAKENING
14 THE DECISION TO TEACH
15 THE TWO EXTREMES
16 THE FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS
17 THE THREE TURNINGS
18 HONOURING THE DHARMA
19 SEEING THROUGH VIEWS
20 DWELLING IN EMPTINESS
21 DAILY CONDUCT
22 TEACHING
23 OLD AGE AND DISEASE
24 FINAL NIRVANA
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES
ABBREVIATIONS