| Description |
1 online resource |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Buddhism -- Thailand -- Chiang Mai -- Customs and practices.
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Buddhism. |
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Thailand -- Chiang Mai. |
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Buddhism -- Sri Lanka -- Kandy -- Customs and practices.
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Sri Lanka -- Kandy. |
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Buddhism -- Burma -- Mandalay -- Customs and practices.
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Burma -- Mandalay. |
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Mindfulness (Psychology) -- Thailand -- Chiang Mai.
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Mindfulness (Psychology) |
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Mindfulness (Psychology) -- Sri Lanka -- Kandy.
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Mindfulness (Psychology) -- Burma -- Mandalay.
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Meditation -- Theravāda Buddhism.
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Meditation. |
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Theravāda Buddhism. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cassaniti, Julia. Remembering the present. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018 9781501707995 (DLC) 2017052060 |
| ISBN |
9781501714160 (epub/mobi) |
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1501714163 |
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9781501714177 (pdf) |
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1501714171 |
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9781501707995 |
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