Mindfulness in Early Buddhism is a timely and thoroughgoing examination of the significance, meaning and development of mindfulness in early Buddhism. Buddhist meditator and scholar Bhikkhu Analayo here provides answers to questions such as: To what extent is mindfulness an originally Buddhist concept? Is there a place for bare awareness and what are its results? What is the significance of mindfulness of the body and what are its benefits? How does mindfulness relate to memory and to the practice of recollection? What are the different benefits associated with mindfulness in the early discourses? and How does mindfulness relate to other aspects of the early Buddhist path of practice?

In Part I Analayo examines topics including mindful eating, ethics and compassion, central aspects of mindfulness practice, and a history of mindfulness, showing how from early Buddhism mindfulness evolved into the modern vipassana and dzogchen traditions' understandings. At the end of each chapter in Part I there are instructions for meditation practice. In part II Analayo provides annotated translations from the Chinese Agamas and a comparative study of their Pali parallels.

Mindfulness in Early Buddhism: Characteristics and Functions, Bhikkhu Analayo, Windhorse Publications, Paperback, 304 pages, $28.95

Bhikkhu Analayo is a scholar-monk and meditation teacher whose published works include Satipatthana: The Direct Path to Realization, Perspectives on Satipatthana and Compassion and Emptiness in Early Buddhist Meditation. Mindfully Facing Disease and Death will be published in January 2017.

CONTENTS: Mindfulness in Early Buddhism
	About the Author	xii
	Acknowledgements	xiii
	Publisher's Acknowledgements	xiv
	Foreword by Mark Allon	xv
	Foreword by Rupert Gethin	xxi
	Introduction	1
Chapter I	Memory Dimensions of Mindfulness	11
Chapter II	Mindfulness of the Body	47
Chapter III	Establishing Mindfulness (1)	85
Chapter IV	Establishing Mindfulness (2)	121
Chapter V	Dimensions of Mindfulness	161
Chapter VI	Mindfulness and Liberation	199
	Conclusions	237
	Abbreviations	245
	References	247
	Index of Subjects	259
	Index Locorum	273