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Tradition and Experimentation: the Development of the Samatha Trust |
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Shaw, Sarah
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Contemporary Buddhism: An Interdisciplinary Journal
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| Volume | v.20 n.1-2 |
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| Date | 2019 |
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| Pages | 346 - 371 |
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| Publisher | Routledge |
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https://www.routledge.com/
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| Location | Abingdon, UK [阿賓登, 英國] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | Author affiliation: University of Oxford and University of South Wales |
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| Abstract | Theravāda Buddhism has travelled. This article gives some history of the practice of samatha breathing mindfulness, in the Theravāda tradition, in the UK. It first gives some background in Britain to the arrival of the meditation in the 1960s, then summarises the life of Nai Boonman Poonyathiro, who introduced this method into the UK, a story that is not generally known. The paper describes some aspects of the development of the Samatha Trust in the UK, attempting to show ways a system that was popular in Thailand when it arrived in a new region has prospered, even while becoming markedly less prominent in its own regions. As I am a practitioner in this tradition, before the conclusion I make some personal comment. To conclude, I speculate about features which appear to characterise Buddhist groups in general in the UK, before considering ways that this specialised tradition has adapted in a new setting. |
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| ISSN | 14639947 (P); 14767953 (E) |
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| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/14639947.2018.1521606 |
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| Created date | 2021.02.21 |
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| Modified date | 2021.02.24 |
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