Practicing the jhānas : traditional concentration meditation as presented by the Venerable Pa Auk Sayadaw /

Snyder, Stephen

Practicing the jhānas : traditional concentration meditation as presented by the Venerable Pa Auk Sayadaw / Stephen Snyder and Tina Rasmussen. - First edition - xii, 147 pages : illustrated, photographs ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 140) and index.

History of the jhānas -- Samatha practice: the purification of mind -- Foundational understandings -- Skillful effort from first sit to first jhānas -- Material jhānas one through four and related practices -- Immaterial jhānas five through eight and related practices -- The sublime abidings and protective meditations -- Four elements meditation -- The Buddha as our role model.

9781590307335 159030733X

2009017722


Śamatha (Buddhism)

BQ5612 / .S62 2009

294.3/4435