The practice of meditation is of course of crucial importance to Buddhism. It is practised in many forms, Shamatha (calm abiding) and Vipassana (insight meditation) being the most popular.
New edition. Considered to be the most important non-canonical work of Theravada Buddhism, this is both a systematic encyclopedia of Buddhist doctrine and...
Probably written in Pali in Sri Lanka during the first century AD, the Vimuttimagga survived only in Chinese translation, from which the present rendering has been made. Ascribed to...
The studies and essays in this collection represent some of the best of contemporary scholarship in Mahayana studies, and deal with the Indo-Tibetan...
Indian edition. This book discusses all aspects of Buddhist meditation, its by-products, methods of Buddhist meditation, its techniques leading to trance and eventually to the state of...
Here are brought together a translation of the Discourse on the Foundations of Mindfulness, its commentary, and other essential source material for mindfulness...