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6. The Teaching of Awareness in Corrado Pensa’s Thought


 
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1. Title Title of document 6. The Teaching of Awareness in Corrado Pensa’s Thought - Teaching Awareness in the Buddhist Tradition
 
2. Creator Author's name, affiliation, country Chiara Neri; University of Cagliari; Italy
 
3. Subject Discipline(s) Buddhist Studies
 
4. Subject Keyword(s) sati; awareness; mindfulness; Pāli Canon; Buddhism; Burmese and Thai forest practice traditions
 
5. Subject Subject classification Buddhist Studies
 
6. Description Abstract Today the use of the term sati, ‘awareness,’ often translated as ‘mindfulness,’ has become very widespread, especially in some groups oriented to the well-being of their students from a psycho-physical point of view. This article will first briefly reconstruct the original idea of awareness (sati) as presented in the Pāli Canon and then analyse how it was interpreted by Professor Corrado Pensa, and why he thought sati was a key to understanding Buddhism itself. The image that emerges is that, although he has been a part of bringing mindfulness to the West, in contrast to some teachers who have tended to trivialize mindfulness and even divorce it from its Buddhist roots, he has very much been a vehicle for the transmission of the Burmese and Thai forest practice traditions, always embedding sati within the framework of Pāli Canonical texts.
 
7. Publisher Organizing agency, location Equinox Publishing Ltd
 
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9. Date (YYYY-MM-DD) 30-Jan-2024
 
10. Type Status & genre Peer-reviewed Article
 
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12. Format File format PDF
 
13. Identifier Uniform Resource Identifier https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/44238
 
14. Identifier Digital Object Identifier 10.1558/equinox.44238
 
15. Source Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) Equinox eBooks Publishing; Teaching Awareness in the Buddhist Tradition
 
16. Language English=en en
 
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