The Chan Handbook The Chan Handbook

The Chan Handbook

Talks About Meditation

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Publisher Description

Not everyone is fortunate enough to attend a meditation retreat with a Chan master, yet everyone can benefit from this handbook that explains the essential principals of chan meditation as taught by the late Tripitika Master Hsuan Hua, former instructor at Nan Hua Monastery in Canton, China, the bodhimanda of the Sixth Patriarch Hui Neng. Compiled from Chinese and translated into English, these talks span a 40 year period during retreats in China and America.

Topics covered include

- What are the benefits of meditation?

- How do we sit in meditation?

- What are the states of meditation?

- How do we reach nirvana?

- What is absolute enlightenment?

GENRE
Health & Well-Being
RELEASED
2011
4 October
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
196
Pages
PUBLISHER
Buddhist Text Translation Society
SIZE
2.5
MB

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