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Study and Practice of Meditation: Tibetan Interpretations of the Concentrations and Formless Absorptions
By: Leah Zahler

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Author: Leah Zahler
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781559393256
Publication Date: 2009

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Study and Practice of Meditation gives a vivid and detailed account of the meditative practices necessary to develop a calm, alert mind that is capable of penetrating the depths of reality. The Buddhist meditative states known as the concentrations and formless absorptions are best known in the West from Theravada scriptures and from Vasubandhu's Treasury of Manifest Knowledge. In this book the reader is exposed to Tibetan Buddhist views on the mental states attained through meditation as described by three contemporary Tibetan lamas. The book discusses the ways in which certain meditative states act as bases of the spiritual path, as well as the nature of meditative calm and the prerequisites for cultivating and attaining it. In addition to reviewing and translating Tibetan sources, the author considers their major Indian antecedents and draws comparisons with Theravadin presentations.

Study and Practice of Meditation, Leah Zahler, Snow Lion Publications, Paperback, 2009, 508 Pages, $39.95

	Charts		vii
	Acknowledgments		xi
	Technical Note		xiii
	Introduction		1
Part 1	Exposition		9
	1.	Ge-luk Presentations of the Concentrations and Formless Absorptions	11
	2.	The Physical Bases of the Concentrations and Formless Absorptions	31
	3.	Mental Bases	49
	4.	Calm Abiding: Entity, Prerequisites, Posture	63
	5.	Objects of Observation: I	181
	6.	Objects of Observation: II	105
	7.	The Cultivation and Attainment of Calm Abiding	137
	8.	The Preparations for the Concentrations and Formless Absorptions	183
	9.	The Meditative Absorptions of the Concentrations and Formless Absorptions	239
Part 2	Comparisons		267
	10.	The Concentrations and Formless Absorptions in the Life of Sh&abar;kyamuni Buddha	269
	11.	The Relationship of the Concentrations and Formless Absorptions to Traditional Buddhist Cosmology	273
	12.	The Concentrations and Formless Absorptions is Ge-luk Monastic Education	291
Part 3	Translations		325
	Tsong-kha-pa's Notes on the Concentrations and Formless Absorptions		329
	K&oumlet;n-chok-jik-may-wang-po's Condensed Statement of (Jam-yang-shay-pa's) "Great Exposition of the Concentrations and Formless Absorptions," An Excellent Vase of Eloquence Presenting the Concentrations and Formless Absorptions		351
	1.	The Basis of Cultivation	353
	2.	The Meditative Stabilizations of the Concentrations and Formless Absorptions That Are to Be Cultivated	367
	3.	Enumeration of the Meditative Stabilizations [of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas] in Dependence upon That	445
	Detailed Outline		447
	Glossaries		457
	List of Abbreviations		499
	Bibliography		501

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