Rethinking Meditation:
Buddhist Meditative Practice in Ancient and Modern Worlds

By David L. McMahan

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246 pages

I want to theorize, broadly, the role of culture in meditative practices. I ask the general question, what role does culture play in meditation?—as well as the more specific question: what role has modern, western, secular, and elite-transnational culture played in its constituting its current forms?

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Published in 2023 by Oxford University Press, Oxford.

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