Eric M Greene Robert E Buswe Jr (3 results)

Condition: New. What is Buddhist meditation? What is going on - and what should be going on - behind the closed or lowered eyelids of the Buddha or Buddhist adept seated in meditation? And in what ways and to what ends have the answers to these questions mattered for Buddh.

Condition: New. Offers a cultural history of the earliest traditions of Buddhist meditation (chan), before the rise of the Chan (Zen) School in the eighth century. Eric Greene focuses on how medieval Chinese Buddhists interpreted their own and others visionary experiences.

Condition: New. Presents a study of the content and historical formation, as well as complete English translations, of two of the most influential manuals in which approaches to Buddhist meditation are discussed: the Scripture on the Secret Essential Methods of Chan (Chan .