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"This Very Body is the Bodhi Tree": The Performance of Contemplative States in the Western Jahna Revival and Contemporary Movement Theater.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	"This Very Body is the Bodhi Tree": The Performance of Contemplative States in the Western Jahna Revival and Contemporary Movement Theater./
Author:	Oakes, Sean Feit.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2016,
Description:	453 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-07(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-07A(E).
Subject:	Performing arts. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10243788
ISBN:	9781369616149

"This Very Body is the Bodhi Tree": The Performance of Contemplative States in the Western Jahna Revival and Contemporary Movement Theater.
Oakes, Sean Feit.

"This Very Body is the Bodhi Tree": The Performance of Contemplative States in the Western Jahna Revival and Contemporary Movement Theater. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2016 - 453 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-07(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Davis, 2016.

This dissertation analyzes the methods and experiences of two groups of contemplative practitioners, experienced Buddhist meditators and experimental modern dancers, in relation to their work with states of consciousness. Both cohorts intentionally cultivate altered or heightened states as part of their process, where "state" is defined as the overall present condition of the entity, and describes the most prominent, or most relevant for a given task, characteristic(s) present. The introduction situates states within a preliminary taxonomy of five types of activity: fluctuating, volitional, state, identity, and existence. This taxonomy is based on the Early Buddhist doctrine of Specific Conditionality, and proposes a conditional, but not causative, relationship between the types of activity, emphasizing the non-linear relationship between volitional action and state shift. The first chapter explores the Early Buddhist meditative discipline of jhana , specific states of deep meditative absorption. Analysis of texts on jhana from the Theravada Buddhist Pali Canon suggests a taxonomy of states as "spectra of experience," supporting a phenomenological analysis of Buddhist concentration practice. Chapter two analyzes the experiences of contemporary Buddhist meditators skilled in jhana, bringing the complexity of real practitioners to the analysis of jhana as a system of state cultivation. The chapter elaborates on the doctrinal descriptions of the jha na states by describing in detail the experience of profound meditative Absorption.

ISBN: 9781369616149Subjects--Topical Terms:

523119
Performing arts.

"This Very Body is the Bodhi Tree": The Performance of Contemplative States in the Western Jahna Revival and Contemporary Movement Theater.
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