Contemporary definition of jhana

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(by the way:

Multiple Buddhist Modernisms: Jhāna in Convert Theravāda

http://www.leighb.com/Jhana_in_Theravada_Quli.pdf THIS ARTICLE FOCUSES on the meditative jhānas as they are encountered by Western, English-speaking Buddhists in popular Buddhist writings and teachings available in the United States. I ask: how do the most popular teachers frame jhāna meditation? Do their teachings and writings reveal “traditional” or “modernist” ways of understanding? Are there significant differences between the various jhāna teachers’ presentations, particularly in their co…

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