This book costs £ 80 for 192 pp The copy in the National Univ of SIngapore
library is marked "missing"!

Piya Tan

On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Gudrun Pinte <gudrunpinte@...>wrote:

> Dear Thomas,
> Are you familiar with the recent work of Dr. Alexander Wynne: "The
> origin of Buddhist Meditation", published in 2007 by Routledge?
> It is very much worth reading!
> You can find a preview on:
>
> http://books.google.be/books?id=TiZWJ1ob23EC&printsec=frontcover&dq=alexander+wynne#PPP1,M1
> Kind regards,
> Gudrun
>
> thomaslaw03 schreef:
>
> >
> > Dear Pali friends,
> >
> > It is said that before the Buddha attained Enlightenment, he leant and
> > practiced meditations from different Hindu gurus, and attained some
> > meditative stages. Do you know what is the final stage of meditation
> > he attainted at that time? Is it the Cessation of perception-and
> > -feeling (sa~n~naa-vedayita-nirodha) or the Ream of
> > neither-perception-nor-non-perception (n'eva
> > sa~n~naa-naasa~n~naayatana)? According to what Pali text (s) we know
> this?
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > Thomas Law
> >
> >
>
>
>



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