Study and Practice of Meditation Tibetan Interpretations of the Concentrations and Formless Absorptions 1st Edition by Leah Zahler 9781559393256 1559393254

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ISBN 10: 1559393254

ISBN 13: 9781559393256

Author: Leah Zahler

Study and Practice of Meditation gives a vivid and detailed account of the meditative practices necessary to develop a calm, alert mind that is capable of penetrating the depths of reality. The Buddhist meditative states known as the concentrations and formless absorptions are best known in the West from Theravada scriptures and from Vasubandhu’s Treasury of Manifest Knowledge. In this book the reader is exposed to Tibetan Buddhist views on the mental states attained through meditation as described by three contemporary Tibetan lamas. The book discusses the ways in which certain meditative states act as bases of the spiritual path as well as the nature of meditative calm and the prerequisites for cultivating and attaining it. In addition to reviewing and translating Tibetan sources, the author considers their major Indian antecedents and draws comparisons with Theravadin presentations.

Table of contents:

Part 1 Exposition
1 Ge-luk Presentations of the Concentrations and Formless Absorptions
2 The Physical Bases of the Concentrations and Formless Absorptions
3 Mental Bases
4 Calm Abiding: Entity, Prerequisites, Posture
5 Objects of Observation: I
6 Objects of Observation: II
7 The Cultivation and Attainment of Calm Abiding
8 The Preparations for the Concentrations and Formless Absorptions
9 The Meditative Absorptions of the Concentrations and Formless Absorptions

Part 2 Comparisons
10 The Concentrations and Formless Absorptions in the Life of Sh&abar;kyamuni Buddha
11 The Relationship of the Concentrations and Formless Absorptions to Traditional Buddhist Cosmology
12 The Concentrations and Formless Absorptions is Ge-luk Monastic Education

Part 3 Translations
Tsong-kha-pa’s Notes on the Concentrations and Formless Absorptions
Köet;n-chok-jik-may-wang-po’s Condensed Statement of (Jam-yang-shay-pa’s) “Great Exposition of the Concentrations and Formless Absorptions,” An Excellent Vase of Eloquence Presenting the Concentrations and Formless Absorptions
1 The Basis of Cultivation
2 The Meditative Stabilizations of the Concentrations and Formless Absorptions That Are to Be Cultivated
3 Enumeration of the Meditative Stabilizations [of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas] in Dependence upon That

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