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Title |
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1. The Meditative Cultivation of Joy - Teaching Awareness in the Buddhist Tradition |
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Creator |
Author's name, affiliation, country |
Bhikkhu Analayo; Center for Buddhist Studies, University of Hamburg; Germany |
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Buddhist Studies |
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Keyword(s) |
joy; Buddhist meditation; Pāli Nikāyas; Chinese Āgamas; mindfulness; meditative joy; meditation; tetrad |
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Buddhist Studies |
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Description |
Abstract |
In what follows I explore the significance of joy (pīti/prīti) in the context of descriptions of early Buddhist meditation, based on a comparative study of the discourses found in the Pāli Nikāyas and their counterparts in the Chinese Āgamas. After a survey of selected passages in order to gain a general impression of the role of meditative joy, I explore in particular an apparent tendency to reduce the scheme of sixteen steps of mindfulness of breathing to its first tetrad, as a result of which the importance of the meditative cultivation of joy is no longer evident and the practice itself loses part of its potential to lead to a state of mind free of distraction. |
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Publisher |
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Equinox Publishing Ltd |
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30-Jan-2024 |
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Peer-reviewed Article |
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PDF |
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Identifier |
Uniform Resource Identifier |
https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/44239 |
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Identifier |
Digital Object Identifier |
10.1558/equinox.44239 |
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Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) |
Equinox eBooks Publishing; Teaching Awareness in the Buddhist Tradition |
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English=en |
en |
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Rights |
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Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |