What is mindfulness, and how does it vary as a concept across different cultures? How does mindfulness find expression in practice in the Buddhist cultures of Southeast Asia? What role does mindfulness play in everyday life? J. L. Cassaniti answers these fundamental questions and more through an engaged ethnographic investigation of what it means to "remember the present" in a region strongly influenced by Buddhist thought.
Focusing on Thailand, Sri Lanka, and Myanmar, Remembering the Present examines the meanings, practices, and purposes of mindfulness. Using the experiences of people in Buddhist monasteries, hospitals, markets, and homes in the region, Cassaniti shows how an attention to memory informs how people live today and how mindfulness is intimately tied to local constructions of time, affect, power, emotion, and selfhood. By looking at how these people incorporate Theravada Buddhism into their daily lives, Cassaniti provides a signal contribution to the psychological anthropology of religious experience.
Remembering the Present heeds the call made by researchers in the psychological sciences and the Buddhist side of mindfulness studies for better understandings of what mindfulness is and can be. Cassaniti addresses fundamental questions about selfhood, identity, and how a deeper appreciation of the many contexts and complexities intrinsic in sati (mindfulness in the Pali language) can help people lead richer, fuller, and healthier lives. Remembering the Present shows how mindfulness needs to be understood within the cultural and historical influences from which it has emerged. 什么是正念,它作为一个概念在不同的文化中是如何变化的?正念如何在东南亚的佛教文化中得到体现?正念在日常生活中扮演什么角色?J. l. cassaniti 回答了这些基本问题,更多的是通过人种学调查,在一个深受佛教思想影响的地区,“铭记当下”意味着什么。以泰国、斯里兰卡和缅甸为重点,铭记当下考察了正念的意义、实践和目的。Cassaniti 利用佛教寺院、医院、市场和当地居民的经验,展示了对记忆的关注如何影响人们今天的生活,以及正念是如何与当地时间、情感、权力、情感和自我建构紧密相连的。通过观察这些人是如何将上座部佛教融入日常生活的,cassaniti 为宗教经验的心理人类学提供了一个显著的贡献。Cassaniti 解决了关于自我、身份的基本问题,以及如何更深入地理解 sati (巴利语中的正念)所固有的许多背景和复杂性,可以帮助人们过上更丰富、更充实和更健康的生活。记住当下显示了正念是如何需要在其产生的文化和历史影响中被理解的。 基本信息 出版社 : Cornell University Press (2018年4月15日) 语言 : 英语 精装 : 318页 ISBN-10 : 150170799X ISBN-13 : 978-1501707995 阅读年龄 : 18 岁及以上 商品重量 : 28 g 尺寸 : 15.24 x 2.44 x 22.86 cm
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