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Author:   Richard P. Boyle
Publisher:   Columbia University Press
Imprint:   Columbia University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.581kg
ISBN:  

9780231170758

ISBN 10:   0231170750
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   02 June 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Interview with Shinzen Young 2. Interview with John Tarrant 3. Interview with Ken McLeod 4. Interview with Ajahn Amaro 5. Interview with Martine Batchelor 6. Interview with Shaila Catherine 7. Interview with Gil Fronsdal 8. Interview with Stephen Batchelor 9. Interview with Pat Enkyo O'Hara 10. Interview with Bernie Glassman 11. Interview with Joseph Goldstein 12. Developing Capacities Necessary for Awakening 13. Properties of Awakening Experiences 14. Evolution of Ordinary and Awakened Consciousness 15. The Awakened Baby? 16. The Human Condition and How We Got Into It 17. Modeling Consciousness, Awakened and Ordinary Appendix: Interview with James Austin, Neuroscientist Notes Glossary of Buddhist Terms References Index

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In addition to the interviews with well-known American Buddhist teachers, which are the heart of the book and make fascinating reading in themselves, the author develops a provocative frame of reference for understanding/discussing philosophically the meaning of some common features he identifies in the interviews regarding the form of consciousness generally referred as awakening. -- David Preston, San Diego State University Here is a sort of George Harrison of the intellectual world. Awakening as described and practised in Buddhism, the author shows, is a process that is real and can be appraised in scientific terms. -- Anthony Giddens, The London School of Economics When meditators have an awakening, what is it really like? Boyle interviewed eleven Western Buddhist teachers to find out, and we get to read their accounts in their own words. Then, drawing on these interviews and on scientific research, Boyle offers an innovative view of how awakening happens and how it can transform each of us. -- Paula England, New York University

In addition to the interviews with well-known American Buddhist teachers, which are the heart of the book and make fascinating reading in themselves, the author develops a provocative frame of reference for understanding/discussing philosophically the meaning of some common features he identifies in the interviews regarding the form of consciousness generally referred as awakening. -- David Preston, San Diego State University

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Richard P. Boyle was an associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles, until 1972, when he left to pursue his studies in Buddhism in the mountains of northern New Mexico. Some years later, he moved to Albuquerque and worked as a senior research scientist at the University of New Mexico's Institute for Social Research. He is recently retired.

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