A Critical Glimpse at the American Appropriation of Asian Meditative Traditions

This paper will focus on the American appropriation of Asian meditative traditions. I will concentrate my attention on the accounts of meditation from two groups of teachers: 1) contemporary American teachers of Yoga and Buddhism (e.g., Cheri Huber, Pema Chodron, and Goswami Kriyananda); 2) Asian te...

The International Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Society

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