"This book is the result of rigorous textual scholarship that can be valued not only by the academic community, but also by Buddhist practitioners. This book serves as an important bridge between those who wish to learn about Buddhist thought and practice and those who wish to learn from it. . . . As a monk engaging himself in Buddhist meditation as well as a professor applying a historical-critical methodology, Bhikkhu Analayo' is well positioned to bridge these two communities. . . . Exploring the meditative practices of compassion and emptiness, Analayo' casts fresh light on their earliest sources in the Buddhist tradition."—17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje
"Arising from the author's long-term, dedicated practice and study, this book provides a window into the depth and beauty of the Buddha's liberating teachings. Serious meditation students will benefit tremendously from the clarity of understanding that Venerable Analayo's efforts have achieved."—Sharon Salzberg
"In this study, Venerable Analayo' brings a meticulous textual analysis of Pali texts, the Chinese Agamas and related material from Sanskrit and Tibetan to the foundational topics of compassion and emptiness. While his analysis is grounded in a scholarly approach, he has written this study as a helpful guide for meditation practice."—Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
Bhikkhu Analayo' completed a PhD on the Satipatthanasutta at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, in 2000, published in 2003 by Windhorse Publications under the title Satipatthana: The Direct Path to Realization. At present Analayo' is a professor of Buddhist studies at the Sri Lanka International Academy in Pallekele.
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“This book is the result of rigorous textual scholarship that can be valued not only by the academic community, but also by Buddhist practitioners. This book serves as an important bridge between those who wish to learn about Buddhist thought and practice and those who wish to learn from it…. As a monk engaging himself in Buddhist meditation as well as a professor applying a historical-critical methodology, Bhikkhu Analayo is well positioned to bridge these two communities who both seek to deepen their understanding of these texts.”
17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje
“Arising from the author's long-term, dedicated practice and study, this book provides a window into the depth and beauty of the Buddha's liberating teachings. Serious meditation students will benefit tremendously from the clarity of understanding that Venerable Analayo's efforts have achieved.”
Sharon Salzberg, Co-Founder of the Insight Meditation Society and Author of Real Happiness.
“In this study, Venerable Analayo brings a meticulous textual analysis of Pali texts, the Chinese Agamas and related material from Sanskrit and Tibetan to the foundational topics of compassion and emptiness. While his analysis is grounded in a scholarly approach, he has written this study as a helpful guide for meditation practice.”
Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
“This book is the result of rigorous textual scholarship that can be valued not only by the academic community, but also by Buddhist practitioners. This book serves as an important bridge between those who wish to learn about Buddhist thought and practice and those who wish to learn from it…. As a monk engaging himself in Buddhist meditation as well as a professor applying a historical-critical methodology, Bhikkhu Analayo is well positioned to bridge these two communities who both seek to deepen their understanding of these texts.”
17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje
“Arising from the author's long-term, dedicated practice and study, this book provides a window into the depth and beauty of the Buddha's liberating teachings. Serious meditation students will benefit tremendously from the clarity of understanding that Venerable Analayo's efforts have achieved.”
Sharon Salzberg, Co-Founder of the Insight Meditation Society and Author of Real Happiness.
“In this study, Venerable Analayo brings a meticulous textual analysis of Pali texts, the Chinese Agamas and related material from Sanskrit and Tibetan to the foundational topics of compassion and emptiness. While his analysis is grounded in a scholarly approach, he has written this study as a helpful guide for meditation practice.”
Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
About the Author
Bhikkhu Analayo completed a PhD on the Satipatthanasutta at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka in 2000, published in 2003 by Windhorse Publications under the title Satipatthana: The Direct Path to Realization. He has also written a habilitation research through a comparative study of the Majjhimanikaya in the light of its Chinese, Sanskrit, and Tibetan parallels at the University of Marburg in 2007, published 2011. He published Perspectives on Satipatthana in 2014, by Windhorse Publications.
At present Analayo is a professor of Buddhist Studies at the Sri Lanka International Academy in Pallekele. He teaches at the Center for Buddhist Studies of the University of Hamburg and researches at the Dharma Drum Buddhist College in Taiwan. His main research area is early Buddhism and in particular the topics "Chinese Agamas," "Meditation," and "Women in Buddhism." Besides his academic pursuits, he spends about half of his time in meditation under retreat conditions and regularly teaches meditation courses in Asia and the West.
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ISBN-13 : 978-1909314559
ISBN-10 : 9781909314559
Dimensions : 6.1 x 0.6 x 9.1 inches
Publisher : Windhorse Publications; Print edition (November 10, 2015)
ASIN : 1909314552
Language: : English
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Bhikkhu Anālayo is a scholar-monk and meditation teacher whose published works include Satipaṭṭhāna: The Direct Path to Realization, Perspectives on Satipaṭṭhāna and Compassion and Emptiness in Early Buddhist Meditation. Mindfully Facing Disease and Death will be published in January 2017.
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Tecla Garcia
5.0 out of 5 stars The practical applications at the end of each section are some of the best meditation suggestions I have ever experienced
Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2017
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Analayo does a very scholarly study of the most ancient Buddhist texts in an attempt to get closer to the actual words and means of what Buddha said. The book reads well surprisingly because the writing is simple but profound. The footnotes handle the details so they don't knower in the way. The practical applications at the end of each section are some of the best meditation suggestions I have ever experienced. I had struggled with focus for so long and during one of his radiating meditations my mind stopped chattering and there was no effort to remain focused for the first time. The variety provided for how to focus was just what I needed. He brings more elements into the Meditation to combine and study/experience together. Brought me to a new level of being at a very difficult period in my life.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Another Inspirational Book by Analayo
Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2015
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Scholarship and practicality perfectly meld together to provide fresh insights into compassion and emptiness and their interconnectedness. If you are a Buddhist practitioner or spiritually and intellectually curious and haven’t read a book by Analayo you are in for a treat. Those who have read Analayo’s inspirational book Satipattani or its follow-up, Perspectives on Satipattani will again be rewarded with this latest addition to a rapidly growing library of western Buddhist literature.
Within the first 10 pages of the first chapter Analayo adeptly discusses (1) the need for joy as an element of compassion, (2) an analysis of the near and far enemies of compassion (sadness and cruelty respectfully), (3) moral conduct as an expression of compassion, (4) how compassionate speech requires both truth and benefit (5) teaching the dharma by disclosing the four noble truths (the path of liberation) as the highest form of compassion, and (6) the Buddha as the supreme physician.
Subsequent chapters refine the concept of compassion within early teachings, discussing compassions place among the brahma viharas (divine abodes, higher mental states) and other traditional teachings including absorption, karma, and the awakening factors. The author then turns to the nature of emptiness, devoting a chapter each to matter, mind and self, before turning to practical meditation techniques beginning with foundational practices, moving into compassion practices and the divine abodes and finally concluding with emptiness. As fitting to teachings centering around the early Pali Canon teachings, the final section of the book is a series of translations of original suttas frequently referenced in the earlier text.
If you are serious about developing an understanding of and practice centering around the Buddha’s teachings you should read and study from this book. Hear, reflect and meditate with it as your source and you will be rewarded. Two thumbs up. Put it on your must read list.
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Don S. Asper
5.0 out of 5 stars Clarifies Buddhist meditation
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In this beautiful, concise book Bhikkhu Anālayo clarifies several aspects of Buddhist meditation practices:
- He shows how the Buddhist meditation on compassion (Brahmaviharas) is related to meditation on emptiness.
- He demonstrates that the relationship between compassion and emptiness practice holds across the Buddhist yanas, thereby showing that they are unified and coherent in this regard.
- His presentation of compassion and emptiness meditation provides a general understanding of how the Buddhist awareness-related meditations (shamatha, vipashyana) relate to the meditative absorptions (jhana, dhyana).
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Catya Den
5.0 out of 5 stars Form is Emptiness and Emptiness is still Form
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An very important book for lovers of the Dharma (Reality, Truth, Phenomena, how things really are) whichever of the many paths of Buddhism they are walking. Through deep scholarship, Analayo bridges the major historic branches of Buddhism, to show the commonality of Dharma in its essential insights. In doing so, he tells a better story of Buddhist history that is inclusive rather than the old-fashioned scholarship of difference.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Very clear and profound
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This book focuses on the two important teachings of Buddhism, compassion and emptiness. After clearly and systematically deconstructing each of the concepts, the author blended the two together in a very well-interwoven way and finally suggested a practical meditation sequence for cultivating compassion. The important message is that it is possible to attain the wisdom of emptiness through the diligent practice of cultivating compassion.
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Brilliant, just like all of Ven Analayo's books,.
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Malik
5.0 out of 5 stars Emptiness manifested
Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2016
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A wonderful book by the Ven. Analayo which is empty of fashionable words which are often used by many authors to project a mystical flavour. It is also empty of a style that promotes the author. The presentation is measured and sober. It is the dhamma he presents so skillfully that speaks for itself. A book that needs to be read and reread many times over.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Extraordinary
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The depth and breadth of this work are extraordinary. For experienced practitioners who are committed to awakening, this book is a treasure, with teachings that cannot readily be found in other places.
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M. A. Ratcliffe
5.0 out of 5 stars Read, Reflect, Repeat.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 25, 2017
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Another useful book by Analayo. Definitely one that warrants multiple re-readings. I especially like the first half of the book that soberly breaks down compassion from the point of view of early Buddhism, and shows how important the other Brahma viharas are in the cultivation of genuine compassion in the Buddhist sense of the word.
Analayo manages to show how the Brahma viharas relate to the progression through the immaterial jhanas as the boundaries created by conceptual thought are brought down and positive emotion is made boundless.
Previously I did not connect with teachings on Brahma viharas and had emitted them from practice to a large extent, but this book has really helped me to begin to acknowledge the fundamental necessity of positive emotion in Buddhist practice. Friendliness, compassion and joy are indespensible in unifying experience; promoting focus and keeping the practitioner from becoming overwhelmed when dealing with hindrances and distractions.
I'm sure this book, along with Analayos others, will help many more practitioners to overcome doubts and misunderstandings that they might have in relation to classical Buddhism.
Analayos writing is such a blessing to anyone who cares to know.
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William Neville
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic book by a practitioner/ academic
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 21, 2019
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Just so clear and well researched. Insightful, inspiring and thought provoking
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 24, 2018
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Another sublime elucidation by the Ven. Analayo. His explanations, and skill at ‘leading the readers on’ is invaluable and the Practice section at the end felt like a guided meditation through the stages of emptiness.
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Carole Melkonian
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent guide for using the Buddhist teachings on the Brahmaviharas and emptiness to realize awakening
Reviewed in Canada on February 4, 2016
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An excellent historical summary and practical guide to early Buddhist texts on compassion and emptiness substantiated from a number of Buddhist traditions.
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Explains emptiness in a beautiful way.
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