Meditation practices currently associated with Theravāda Buddhism are largely text-based methods stemming from nineteenth-century reforms in Burma and Thailand. Despite pioneer work by a small number of French, Thai and British scholars, there is little awareness in western scholarship of meditation as practised prior to these reforms, and no research into its lineages of transmission or internal diversity. This article attempts to remedy this by describing in detail a single meditation practice from the Old Meditation (Thai boran kammatthan) cycle as transmitted by the Supreme Patriarch (Thai Sangkharat) Suk Kaithuean and currently taught uniquely at Wat Ratchasittharam, Thonburi. This involves invoking the eidetic ‘ signs’ (Pali nimitta) ...
Burmese identity is intrinsically linked to Theravada Buddhism, and in this paper the author questio...
This thesis examines the role of translation and the formation of Vajrayāna Buddhist subjects in rel...
Michel Lorrillard Towards the origins of Siamese Buddhism The case of the buddhapāda A distinguishi...
In Thailand the pre-reform Theravada meditation system, boran kammatthana, is now practised only by ...
This thesis examines the pervasiveness of dhammakaya meditation practices in modern Thailand. It ide...
This thesis examines the pervasiveness of dhammakaya meditation practices in modern Thailand. It ide...
In this paper I will argue that a significant force that promotes Buddhist ideas of mindfulness outs...
In postcolonial Burma, two trends within lay Buddhism — largely in tension with one another — develo...
This dissertation centers on an attempt to bring questions of a sociological nature to the modern ac...
This study examines the Śrāvakabhūmih of the Yogācārabhūmi-śāstra with the aim of identifying the do...
This paper traces the development of a tantric meditation practice across three generations of Tibet...
The historic authenticity of the early Buddhist sources is a much disputed topic. Although many mode...
The Dhammakāya text genre appears in manuscripts, inscriptions, and printed texts found in Central T...
Among one of the older subfields in Buddhist Studies, the study of Theravāda Buddhism is undergoing ...
While monastic identity and ascetic practices such as vipassanā meditation have historically been th...
Burmese identity is intrinsically linked to Theravada Buddhism, and in this paper the author questio...
This thesis examines the role of translation and the formation of Vajrayāna Buddhist subjects in rel...
Michel Lorrillard Towards the origins of Siamese Buddhism The case of the buddhapāda A distinguishi...
In Thailand the pre-reform Theravada meditation system, boran kammatthana, is now practised only by ...
This thesis examines the pervasiveness of dhammakaya meditation practices in modern Thailand. It ide...
This thesis examines the pervasiveness of dhammakaya meditation practices in modern Thailand. It ide...
In this paper I will argue that a significant force that promotes Buddhist ideas of mindfulness outs...
In postcolonial Burma, two trends within lay Buddhism — largely in tension with one another — develo...
This dissertation centers on an attempt to bring questions of a sociological nature to the modern ac...
This study examines the Śrāvakabhūmih of the Yogācārabhūmi-śāstra with the aim of identifying the do...
This paper traces the development of a tantric meditation practice across three generations of Tibet...
The historic authenticity of the early Buddhist sources is a much disputed topic. Although many mode...
The Dhammakāya text genre appears in manuscripts, inscriptions, and printed texts found in Central T...
Among one of the older subfields in Buddhist Studies, the study of Theravāda Buddhism is undergoing ...
While monastic identity and ascetic practices such as vipassanā meditation have historically been th...
Burmese identity is intrinsically linked to Theravada Buddhism, and in this paper the author questio...
This thesis examines the role of translation and the formation of Vajrayāna Buddhist subjects in rel...
Michel Lorrillard Towards the origins of Siamese Buddhism The case of the buddhapāda A distinguishi...