Jhana Consciousness: Buddhist Meditation in the Age of Neuroscience

by Paul Dennison

Book Overview

An interdisciplinary deep dive into Buddhist jhāna meditation and how it can transform our understanding of self and consciousness

States of profound meditative concentration, the jhānas are central to the earliest Buddhist teachings. For centuries in Southeast Asia, oral yogāvacara (yoga practitioner) lineages kept traditional jhāna practices alive, but in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, reforms in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1645470806
• ISBN13: 9781645470809
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Shambhala
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.4"