Remembering the Present: Mindfulness in Buddhist Asia Pasuk He worked for the Swedish

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Remembering the Present: Mindfulness in Buddhist Asia Pasuk He worked for the SwedishWhat is mindfulness, and how does it vary as a concept across different cultures? How does mindfulness find expression in practice in the Buddhist cultures of Southeast Asia? What role does mindfulness play in everyday life? J. L. Cassaniti answers these fundamental questions and more in her engaged ethnographic investigation of what it means to remember the present in a region strongly influenced by Buddhist thought. Focusing on Thailand, Sri Lanka,