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| Meditation in Modern Buddhism: Renunciation and Change in Thai Monastic Life | ||
| 作者 | Cook, Joanna (著) |
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| 出版日期 | 2010.08 |
| 頁次 | 224 |
| 出版者 | Buddhist World Press |
| 出版者網址 | http://uk.cambridge.org/ |
| 出版地 | Cambridge, UK [劍橋, 英國] |
| 資料類型 | 書籍=Book |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Joanna Cook is George Kingsley Roth Research Fellow in Southeast Asian Studies, Christ's College, University of Cambridge. |
| 摘要 | In contemporary Thai Buddhism, the burgeoning popularity of vipassanā meditation is dramatically impacting the lives of those most closely involved with its practice: monks and mae chee (lay nuns) living in monastic communities. For them, meditation becomes a central focus of life and a way to transform the self. This ethnographic account of a thriving Northern Thai monastery examines meditation in detail, and explores the subjective signification of monastic duties and ascetic practices. Drawing on fieldwork done both as an analytical observer and as a full participant in the life of the monastery, Joanna Cook analyzes the motivation and experience of renouncers, and shows what effect meditative practices have on individuals and community organization. The particular focus on the status of mae chee - part lay, part monastic - provides a fresh insight into social relationships and gender hierarchy within the context of the monastery. |
| 目次 | Acknowledgements vi List of map and ûgures viii Notes on language ix 1. Meditation and monasticism: making the ascetic self in Thailand 1 2. Meditation and religious reform 26 3. The monastic community: duty and structure 51 4. Meditation as ethical imperative 70 5. Language and meditation 96 6. Monastic duty, mindfulness and cognitive space 116 7. Money, mae chee and reciprocity 135 8. Hierarchy, gender and mindfulness 151 9. Monasticization and the ascetic interiority of non-self 173 Appendix Ordination transcript for an eight-precept nun (mae chee) 195 Bibliography 198 Index 210 |
| ISBN | 9780521119382 (hc); 0521119383 (hc); 9781107660557 (pbk); 9780511771170 (eb) |
| 點閱次數 | 427 |
| 建檔日期 | 2011.01.19 |
| 更新日期 | 2025.08.05 |
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