The Lives of the Buddha in the Art and Literature of Asia

SummaryIn the Marinelli chair, a geometry widely used in whole body counting, the lower part of the leg is seen quite inefficiently by the detector. The present paper describes an attempt to modify the standard chair geometry to minimise this limitation. The subject sits crossed-legged in the “Buddha Posture” in the standard chair. Studies with humanoid phantoms and a volunteer sitting in the Buddha posture show that this modification brings marked improvement over the Marinelli chair both from the point of view of sensitivity and uniformity of spatial response.

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Thai Buddhist Meditation Practice Tradition and a Case Study

International Journal of Business and Applied Social Science ◽

10.33642/ijbass.v6n7p2 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 12-15

Author(s):

Somboon Watana, Ph.D.

Keyword(s):

Present Article ◽

Practice Research ◽

Meditation Practice ◽

Master Teachers ◽

Buddhist Meditation ◽

Good Deed ◽

University Level ◽

The University ◽

The Buddha

Thai Buddhist meditation practice tradition has its long history since the Sukhothai Kingdom about 18th B.E., until the present day at 26th B.E. in the Kingdom of Thailand. In history there were many well-known Buddhist meditation master teachers, i.e., SomdejPhraBhudhajaraya (To Bhramarangsi), Phraajarn Mun Puritatto, Luang Phor Sodh Chantasalo, PhramahaChodok Yanasitthi, and Buddhadasabhikkhu, etc. Buddhist meditation practice is generally regarded by Thai Buddhists to be a higher state of doing a good deed than doing a good deed by offering things to Buddhist monks even to the Buddha. Thai Buddhists believe that practicing Buddhist meditation can help them to have mindfulness, peacefulness in their own lives and to finally obtain Nibbana that is the ultimate goal of Buddhism. The present article aims to briefly review history, and movement of Thai Buddhist Meditation Practice Tradition and to take a case study of students’ Buddhist meditation practice research at the university level as an example of the movement of Buddhist meditation practice tradition in Thailand in the present.

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William S. Heckscher. Art and Literature. Studies in Relationship. Editor Egon Verheyen, Baden-Baden, Valentin Koerner (Saecula Spiritalia 17) and Durham, N.C. (Duke University Press), 1985. 528 pp., 235 illustrations. Introduction by E.V. pp.9-21 ; Bibliography pp. 23-30

Moreana ◽

10.3366/more.1986.23.1.22 ◽

1986 ◽

Vol 23 (Number 89) (1) ◽

pp. 89-92

Author(s):

Virginia W. Callahan

Keyword(s):

Art And Literature ◽

Duke University

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