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HKU: CBS Publication Series

BUDDHIST MEDITATIVE PRAXIS

TRADITIONAL TEACHINGS

&

MODERN APPLICATIONS

EDITORKL Dhammajoti 法光

Centre of Buddhist Studies

The University of Hong Kong

Hong Kong

2015


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Published in Hong Kong by

Centre of Buddhist Studies


2015

© Centre of Buddhist Studies,


All Rights Reserved.

This publication is sponsored by

Tung Lin Kok Yuen.

ISBN: 978-988-16843-3-2


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CONTENTS

Contributors vii

Foreword xi

Preface xiii

PART IBUDDHIST MEDITATIVE PRAXIS: HISTORY, DOCTRINES

AND PHILOSOPHICAL IMPLICATIONS

The Sutta On Mindfulness with In and Out Breathing 1L.S. cousins

Prajñā-vimukta, ubhayatobhāga-vimukta and vimokṣāvaraṇaThe Sarvāstivāda perspective 25

Kl dhAmmAjoti

The Sevenfold Purication (sattavisuddhi) as the

Structural Framework of the Visuddhimagga:Some Observations 51

Toshiichi endo

Jitāri on Backward Causation (bhāvikāraṇavāda) 81Eli frAnco

The Role of Meditation in the Threefold Scheme of Buddhist

Mental Culture 117

Y KArunAdAsA

Samādhi Names: The Nature of Meditative Experience

In Mahāyāna 123

Lewis lAncAster

A Reexamination of on Being Mindless: PossibleMeditative Implications of the Eightfold Proof of

Ālayavijñāna 137

Nobuyoshi yAmAbe


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The Diachronic and Synchronic Relationship betweenPhilosophical Theory and Spiritual Praxis in Buddhism:

With Special Reference to the Case of the Four

Applications of Mindfulness (smṛtyupasthāna: dran panye bar gzhag pa) in Vajrayāna 177

Dorji WAngchuK

Central Asian Meditation Manuals 203

CharlesWillemen

Do Meditative Objects Exist? 211

Zhihua yAo

PART IIBUDDHIST MEDITATIVE PRAXIS: MODERN APPLICATIONSAND INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES

A Chinese Chan-Based Intervention: A Way to Improvethe Mind and Body 221

Agnes, Sui Yin chAn

Neurodharma: Practicing with the Brain in Mind 227

Rick hAnson

Can Meditation Change our Brain? 245

Tatia M.C. lee, Natalie T.Y. leung

The Importance of the Buddhist Teaching on Three Kinds of

Knowing: In a School-based Contemplative Education

Program 253

Hin Hung siK, Bonnie Wai Yan Wu

Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy for Depression 291

mArK WilliAms


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CONTRIBUTORS(In alphabetical order)

Sui Yin Agnes chAn Ph.D.Professor, Department of Psychology,

Director, Neuropsychology Laboratory,

Director,

Chanwuyi Research Center for Neuropsychological Well-Being,

The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

L.S. cousins

M.A.Wolfson College, Oxford,Faculty of Theology and Religion,

Oxford University.

Fellow,

Oxford Centre of Buddhist Studies.

K.L. dhAmmAjoti Ph.D.Glorious Sun Professor of Buddhist Studies,

Centre of Buddhist Studies,The University of Hong Kong.

Director, The Buddha-Dharma Centre of Hong Kong.

Toshiichi endo Ph.D.Associate Professor, Centre of Buddhist Studies,

The University of Hong Kong.

Eli frAnco Ph.D.

Director, Institute of Indology and Central Asian Studies,Leipzig University, Germany.

Member, Saxon Academy of Sciences.

Rick hAnson Ph.D.Senior Fellow,

Greater Good Science Centre,

University of California, Berkeley.

Founder,Wellspring Institute of Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom.

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Hin Hung siK M.A.Director, Centre of Buddhist Studies,The University of Hong Kong.

Y. KArunAdAsA Ph.D.Professor Emeritus,

University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka.

Lewis lAncAster Ph.D.Professor Emeritus,

University of California, Berkeley.Visiting Professor, Centre of Buddhist Studies,


Tatia M.C. lee Ph.D., R. Psych.May Professor in Neuropsychology and Chair Professor of Psychology,

Head, Department of Psychology.

Honorary Professor,

Department of Psychiatry and Department of Medicine,


Natalie T.Y. leung M.Phil.Laboratory of Neuropsychology,


Dorji WAngchuK Ph.D.Professor of Tibetan (Buddhist) Studies,

Department of Indian and Tibetan Studies,

Asien-Afrika-Institut, Universitat Hamburg.

Charles Willemen Ph.D.Professor and Rector,

International Buddhist College.

Mark WilliAms Ph.D.Professor Emeritus of Clinical Psychology,

The University of Oxford.

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