Remembering the Present: Mindfulness in Buddhist Asia

Cassaniti, Julia L. (著)

著者

Cassaniti, Julia L. (著)

出版年月日

2018.04.15

ページ

318

出版者

Cornell University Press

出版サイト

https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/

出版地

Ithaca, NY, US [伊薩卡, 紐約州, 美國]

資料の種類

書籍=Book

言語

英文=English

ノート

J. L. Cassaniti is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Washington State University, and the author of Living Buddhism.

抄録

What is mindfulness, and how does it vary as a concept across different cultures? How does mindfulness find expression in practice in the Buddhist cultures of Southeast Asia? What role does mindfulness play in everyday life? J. L. Cassaniti answers these fundamental questions and more through an engaged ethnographic investigation of what it means to "remember the present" in a region strongly influenced by Buddhist thought.

Focusing on Thailand, Sri Lanka, and Myanmar, Remembering the Present examines the meanings, practices, and purposes of mindfulness. Using the experiences of people in Buddhist monasteries, hospitals, markets, and homes in the region, Cassaniti shows how an attention to memory informs how people live today and how mindfulness is intimately tied to local constructions of time, affect, power, emotion, and selfhood. By looking at how these people incorporate Theravada Buddhism into their daily lives, Cassaniti provides a signal contribution to the psychological anthropology of religious experience.

Remembering the Present heeds the call made by researchers in the psychological sciences and the Buddhist side of mindfulness studies for better understandings of what mindfulness is and can be. Cassaniti addresses fundamental questions about selfhood, identity, and how a deeper appreciation of the many contexts and complexities intrinsic in sati (mindfulness in the Pali language) can help people lead richer, fuller, and healthier lives. Remembering the Present shows how mindfulness needs to be understood within the cultural and historical influences from which it has emerged.

Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Terms
Introduction
Part I. Thailand
1. Monks' Mindfulness
2. The Feeling of Mindfulness in Meditation
3. The Ghosts of Insanity in Lay Thai Life
Part II. Burma and Sri Lanka
4. Burma
5. Sri Lanka
Conclusion
Notes
Glossary
References
Index

ISBN

9781501709173 (pbk); 1501709178 (pbk); 9781501707995 (hc); 150170799X (hc); 9781501714160 (eb); 1501714163 (eb)

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