An Ethnography of the Vipassana Meditation Retreat: A Reflexive Evaluation of the Participant-Observer's Meditation Experience as an Interpretive Tool

The practice of vipassana meditation emphasizes the role of meditative experience in coming to understand the Buddhist worldview and in effecting personal transformation. Data obtained from fieldwork conducted between 2003 and 2005 at the Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre (BMIMC) in Medlow Ba...

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Auteur principal: Eddy, Glenys (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Equinox [2015]
Dans: Fieldwork in religion
Année: 2014, Volume: 9, Numéro: 1, Pages: 68-86
Sujets non-standardisés:B Ethnography
B Vipassana meditation
B Western Buddhism
B religious experience and reflexivity
B Religious Conversion
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