Buddhist meditative praxis
Subtitle: traditional teachings & modern applications
By: editor, KL Dhammajoti Faguang
Contributors: University of Hong Kong. Centre of Buddhist Studies
Series: HKU: CBS publication series; Centre of Buddhist Studies publication series (University of Hong Kong)
Publisher: Centre of Buddhist Studies, The University of Hong Kong
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Hong Kong
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9789881684332
Subjects: Buddhism; Doctrines; Meditation
Notes: "This publication is sponsored by Tung Lin Kok Yuen"--Title page verso.

"HKU, CBS publication series."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-307).
Table of contents: title: Part I. Buddhist meditative praxis: history, doctrines and philosophical implications.; title: The Sutta on mindfulness with in and out breathing  -- L.S. Cousins; title: Prajñā-vimukta, ubhayatobhāga-vimukta and vimokṣāvaraṇa : the sarvāstivāda perspective  -- KL Dhammajoti; title: The sevenfold purification (sattavisuddhi) as the structural framework of the Visuddhimagga : some observations  -- Toshiichi Endo; title: Jitāri on Backward Causation (bhāvikāraṇavāda)  -- Eli Franco; title: The role of meditation in the threefold scheme of Buddhist mental culture  -- Y Karunadasa; title: A reexamination of on being mindless : possible Meditative implications of the eightfold proof of Ālayavijñāna  -- Nobuyoshi Yamabe; title: The diachronic and synchronic relationship between philosophical theory and spiritual praxis in Buddhism: with special reference to the case of the four applications of mindfulness (smṛtyupasthāna: dran pa nye bar gzhag pa) in Vajrayāna  -- Dorji Wangchuk; title: Central Asian meditation manuals  -- Charles Willemen; title: Do meditation manuals  -- Charles Willemen; title: Do meditative objects exist?  -- Zhihua Yao -- Part II. Buddhist meditative praxis: modern applications and interdisciplinary studies.; title: A Chinese Chan-based intervention : a way to improve the mind and body  -- Agnes, Sui Yin Chan; title: Neurodharma: practicing with the brain in mind  -- Rick Hanson; title: Can meditation change our brain?  -- Tatia M. C. Lee, Natalic T. Y. Leung; title: The importance of the Buddhist teaching on three kinds of knowing : in a school-based contemplative education program -- Hin Hung Sik, Bonnie Wai Yan Wu -- Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for depression /-- Mark Williams.