Is Meditation a Means of Knowing our Mental World Thupten Jinpa …
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Is Meditation a Means of Knowing our Mental World?
Thupten Jinpa
Institute of Tibetan Classics
McGill University
The idea of meditation or some kind of disciplined inner reflection lies at the heart of spiritual
practice in most ancient Indian spiritual and philosophical traditions and Buddhism is no
exception. As the inheritor of classical Indian Buddhism, the Tibetan tradition too accords
important place for meditation in its self-understanding. In these traditional contexts, however,
the practice of meditation has always been closely linked to the project of seeking spiritual
freedom irrespective of how such freedom may be characterized. In other…
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