The promise of the universal: non-Buddhists' accounts of their Vipassanā meditation retreat experiences

Since the 1970s non-Buddhist Westerners have been writing detailed descriptions of their personal experiences in vipassanā meditation retreat settings. These memoirs illustrate that meditation is positioned as a universal practice that is constructed as objective and empirically valid, but at the sa...

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Published in:Religion
Main Author: Schedneck, Brooke (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge [2019]
In: Religion
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Western world / Vipaśyanā / Experience / Experience account
IxTheo Classification:AE Psychology of religion
AG Religious life; material religion
BL Buddhism
Further subjects:B memoir
B Buddhism
B Autobiography
B Meditation
B Religions
Online Access: Volltext (Resolving-System)