Remembering the Present: Mindfulness in Buddhist Asia Pasuk focusing on the monarchy

focusing on the monarchy

Hmong ex-communists

and bamboos

unpredictable nature of love

and translator who has lived in Thailand since 1979

Remembering the Present: Mindfulness in Buddhist Asia Pasuk focusing on the monarchyWhat is mindfulness, and how does it vary as a concept across different cultures? How does mindfulness find expression in practice in the Buddhist cultures of Southeast Asia? What role does mindfulness play in everyday life? J. L. Cassaniti answers these fundamental questions and more in her engaged ethnographic investigation of what it means to remember the present in a region strongly influenced by Buddhist thought. Focusing on Thailand, Sri Lanka,