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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> Meditation has flourished in different parts of the world ever since the foundations of the great civilizations were laid. It played a vital role in the formation of Asian cultures that trace much of their heritage to ancient India and China. This volume brings together for the first time studies of the major traditions of Asian meditation as well as material on scientific approaches to meditation. It delves deeply into the individual traditions while viewing each of them from a global perspec-tive examining both historical and generic connections between meditative practices from numerous historical periods and differ-ent parts of the Eurasian continent. It seeks to identify the cultural and historical peculiar-ities of Asian schools of meditation while rec-ognizing basic features of meditative practice across cultures thereby taking the first step toward a framework for the comparative study of meditation. The book accessibly written by schol-ars from several fields opens with chapters that discuss the definition and classification of meditation. These are followed by contri-butions on Yoga and Tantra which are often subsumed under the broad label of Hinduism; Jainism and Sikhism Indian traditions not. (SP)