Esoteric Theravada : The Story of the Forgotten Meditation Tradition of Southeast Asia
- Submitting institution
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King's College London
- Unit of assessment
- 31 - Theology and Religious Studies
- Output identifier
- 135180072
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Shambhala Publications Inc
- ISBN
- 9781611807943
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This 256-page monograph presents substantial results from 7 years’ additional research of material, building upon the author’s earlier work. Findings include how esoteric Theravada meditation aims at somatic transformation based on orthodox commentarial Abhidhamma. The volume also, for the first time, establishes the history of this tradition going back half a millennium. These findings entailed complex coordination of many different types of evidence in multiple languages preserved in six different countries and belonging to different fields (Buddhist studies, political history, history of science and history of medicine).
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- Non-English
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