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The Birth of Insight: Meditation, Modern Buddhism, and the Burmese Monk Ledi Sayadaw - Buddhism and Modernity Erik Braun
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The Birth of Insight: Meditation, Modern Buddhism, and the Burmese Monk Ledi Sayadaw - Buddhism and Modernity
Erik Braun
Insight meditation, which claims to offer practitioners a chance to escape all suffering by perceiving the true nature of reality, is one of the most popular forms of meditation today. Offering a narrative of the life and legacy of one of modern Buddhism's most important figures, this book provides an account of the development of mass meditation.
248 pages, 6 halftones
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | November 19, 2013 |
| ISBN13 | 9780226000800 |
| Publishers | The University of Chicago Press |
| Pages | 280 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 236 × 21 mm · 526 g |