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A Buddhist Epistemological Framework for Mindfulness Meditation 자세히보기
  • 자료유형학술지논문
  • 저자명Chadha, Monima
  • 학회/출판사/기관명Taylor & Francis
  • 출판년도2015
  • 언어영어
  • 학술지명/학위논문주기Asian philosophy
  • 발행사항Vol.25No.1[2015]_x000D_
  • ISBN/ISSN0955-2367
  • 소개/요약One of the major aims of this article is to provide the theoretical account of mindfulness provided by the systematic Abhidharma epistemology of conscious states. I do not claim to present the one true version of mindfulness, because there is not one version of it in Buddhism; in addition to the Abhidharma model, there is, for example, the nondual Mahāmudrā tradition. A better understanding of a Buddhist philosophical framework will not only help situate meditation practice in its originating tradition, but it will also clarify a Buddhist perspective on consciousness. In this article, I present the Abhidharma account of mindfulness—as explicated in the Abhidharmakośa, the root text for the Abhidharma tradition—and the theoretical model of the mind that underlies its practice. Abhidharma-Yogācara model of the mind, I believe, contains critical philosophical insights relevant to contemporary concerns while at the same time placing mindfulness meditation in its proper philosophical context.