The Birth of Insight: Meditation, Modern Buddhism, and the Burmese Monk Ledi Sayadaw

by Erik Braun

Book Overview

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. The Theravada Buddhist cultures of South and Southeast Asia often see it as the Buddha's most important gift to humanity. In the first book to examine how this practice came to play such a dominant--and relatively recent--role in Buddhism, Erik Braun takes readers to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022641857X
• ISBN13: 9780226418575
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"