Meditation in modern Buddhism : renunciation and change in Thai monastic life / Joanna Cook.
"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...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Meditation and monasticism: making the ascetic self in Thailand
- Meditation and religious reform
- The monastic community: duty and structure
- Meditation as ethical imperative
- Language and meditation
- Monastic duty, mindfulness and cognitive space
- Money, mae chee and reciprocity
- Hierarchy, gender and mindfulness
- Monasticization and the ascetic interiority of non-self
- Appendix: ordination transcript for an eight-precept nun (mae chee)