{"product_id":"compassion-and-emptiness-in-early-buddhist-meditation-paperback","title":"Compassion and Emptiness in Early Buddhist Meditation - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBhikkhu Analayo\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is the result of rigorous textual scholarship that can be valued not\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eonly by the academic community, but also by Buddhist practitioners. As a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emonk engaging in Buddhist meditation as well as a professor applying a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehistorical-critical methodology, Bhikkhu Anālayo is well positioned to bridge\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethese two communities.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVenerable Anālayo brings a meticulous textual analysis of Pali texts, the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChinese Āgamas and related material from Sanskrit and Tibetan to the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efoundational topics of compassion and emptiness.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJetsunma Tenzin Palmo, author of Reflections on a Mountain Lake\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnālayo holds a lamp to illuminate how the earliest teachings wed the great\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eheart of compassion and the liberating heart of emptiness and invites us to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ejoin in this profound training.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJack Kornfield, author of Bringing Home the Dharma\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis scholarly book is more than timely with its demonstrations that\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eteachings on emptiness and compassion that are helpful to practitioners of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eany form of Buddhism are abundant in early Buddhist texts.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRita M. Gross, Professor Emerita of Comparative Studies in Religion, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUniversity of Wisconsin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSerious meditation students will benefit tremendously from the clarity of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eunderstanding that Venerable Anālayo's efforts have achieved.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSharon Salzberg, author of Real Happiness\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnālayo investigates the meditative practices of compassion and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eemptiness by examining and interpreting material from the early\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuddhist discourses. Similar to his previous study of satipatthāna, he\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebrings a new dimension to our understanding by comparing the Pali texts\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewith versions that have survived in Chinese, Sanskrit and Tibetan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe result is a wide-ranging exploration of what these practices\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emeant in early Buddhism. While his presentation is based on academic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emethodology, this book is meant for practitioners, and he focuses on\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epassages in light of their relevance to meditation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBhikkhu Analayo completed a PhD on the Satipatthanasutta at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka in 2000, published in 2003 by Windhorse Publications under the title Satipatthana: The Direct Path to Realization. He has also written a habilitation research through a comparative study of the Majjhimanikaya in the light of its Chinese, Sanskrit, and Tibetan parallels at the University of Marburg in 2007, published 2011. He published Perspectives on Satipatthana in 2014, by Windhorse Publications. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt present Analayo is a professor of Buddhist Studies at the Sri Lanka International Academy in Pallekele. He teaches at the Center for Buddhist Studies of the University of Hamburg and researches at the Dharma Drum Buddhist College in Taiwan. His main research area is early Buddhism and in particular the topics \"Chinese Agamas,\" \"Meditation,\" and \"Women in Buddhism.\" Besides his academic pursuits, he spends about half of his time in meditation under retreat conditions and regularly teaches meditation courses in Asia and the West.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 10, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50335887556845,"sku":"9781909314559","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/8918\/9441\/files\/Qx4CQF8fps9781909314559.webp?v=1785052530","url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/en-ca\/products\/compassion-and-emptiness-in-early-buddhist-meditation-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}