Agnostic meditations on buddhist meditation

Zygon

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 605-626

  Deleanu, Florin ^a  

^a International College for Postgraduate Buddhist Studies   (Japan)

Author keywords

Buddhist meditation; Consciousness centered meditation; Cr d effect; Early Buddhism; Emotion centered meditation; Epistemology of meditation; Insight (vipassan ); Mah y na; Meditation and happiness; Physiology centered meditation; Placebo effect; Reflection centered meditation; Subject object duality; Tantric Buddhism; Therav da; Tranquility (samatha); Visualization centered meditation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955405579     PISSN: 05912385     EISSN: 14679744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2010.01117.x     Document Type: Article

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