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Tradition and Experimentation: the Development of the Samatha Trust
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- 자료유형학술지논문
- 저자명Shaw, Sarah
- 학회/출판사/기관명Taylor & Francis
- 출판년도2019
- 언어영어
- 학술지명/학위논문주기CONTEMPORARY BUDDHISM
- 발행사항Vol.20No.1-2[2019]_x000D_
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- 소개/요약Theravāda Buddhism has travelled. This article gives some history of the practice of samatha breathing mindfulness, in the Theravāda tradition, in the UK. It first gives some background in Britain to the arrival of the meditation in the 1960s, then summarises the life of Nai Boonman Poonyathiro, who introduced this method into the UK, a story that is not generally known. The paper describes some aspects of the development of the Samatha Trust in the UK, attempting to show ways a system that was popular in Thailand when it arrived in a new region has prospered, even while becoming markedly less prominent in its own regions. As I am a practitioner in this tradition, before the conclusion I make some personal comment. To conclude, I speculate about features which appear to characterise Buddhist groups in general in the UK, before considering ways that this specialised tradition has adapted in a new setting.
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