LEADER 04030nam 22005771 450 001 9910810477603321 005 20150520151911.0 010 $a1-4725-7992-5 010 $a1-4742-2008-8 010 $a1-4725-7991-7 024 7 $a10.5040/9781474220088 035 $a(CKB)3710000000464183 035 $a(EBL)2167351 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001613573 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16338418 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001613573 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14906710 035 $a(PQKB)11334441 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2167351 035 $a(OCoLC)919002437 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09259373 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000464183 100 $a20150827d2015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aMeditation and culture $ethe interplay of practice and context /$fedited by Halvor Eifring 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aNew York :$cBloomsbury Academic,$d2015. 215 $a1 online resource (281 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-350-03626-9 311 $a1-4725-7990-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aList of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Introduction. 1 Meditative Practice and Cultural Context, Halvor Eifring -- Section 1 Traveling Practices. 2 The Daoist Adaptation of Buddhist Insight Meditation, Livia Kohn ; 3 Ignatian Visual Meditation in Seventeenth-Century China, Nicolas Standaert ; 4 Modern Meditation in the Context of Science, Øyvind Ellingsen and Are Holen -- Section 2 Competing Practices. 5 Mindfulness and Mindlessness in Early Cha?n, Robert H. Sharf ; 6 Reverence and Quietude in Neo-Confucianism, Rur-bin Yang ; 7 Meditative Pluralism in Hanshan De?qing, Halvor Eifring -- Section 3 Competing Cultures. 8 The Hindi Sants' Two Yogic Paths to the Formless Lord, Daniel Gold ; 9 Inner Islamization in Java, Paul D. Stange ; 10 Cinnabar-fi eld Meditation in Korea, Don Baker -- Section 4 Cultural Mosaics. 11 Tibetan Cho?d as Practiced by Ani Lochen Rinpoche, Hanna Havnevik ; 12 Vedic Chanting as a Householder's Meditation Practice in the Tamil Saiva Siddhanta Tradition, M. D. Muthukumaraswamy ; 13 Spontaneous Thoughts in Meditative Traditions, Halvor Eifring -- Notes -- References -- Index. 330 $a"Behind the stereotype of a solitary meditator closing his eyes to the world, meditation always takes place in close interaction with the surrounding culture. Meditation and Culture: The Interplay of Practice and Context explores cases in which the relation between meditative practice and cultural context is particularly complex. The internationally-renowned contributors discuss practices that travel from one culture to another, or are surrounded by competing cultures. They explore cultures that bring together competing practices, or that are themselves mosaics of elements of different origins. They seek to answer the question: What is the relationship between meditation and culture? The effects of meditation may arise from its symbolic value within larger webs of cultural meaning, as in the contextual view that still dominates cultural and religious studies. They may also be psychobiological responses to the practice itself, the cultural context merely acting as a catalyst for processes originating in the body and mind of the practitioner. Meditation and Culture gives no single definitive explanation, but taken together, the different viewpoints presented point to the complexity of the relationship."--Bloomsbury Publishing. 606 $aMeditation 606 $aReligion and culture 606 $2Educational: Religious studies 615 0$aMeditation. 615 0$aReligion and culture. 676 $a204/.35 702 $aEifring$b Halvor 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910810477603321 996 $aMeditation and culture$93944598 997 $aUNINA