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The Two Traditions of Meditation in Ancient India
Johannes Bronkhorst · 1993
80/100
👍 Worth It
A rigorous, foundational academic study that addressed a genuinely unresolved question in early Buddhist scholarship and remains a standard reference decades later. Bronkhorst's philological methodology has been critiqued by subsequent scholars, but the core comparative analysis of Buddhist versus Jaina meditation practices is still widely cited and influential. For academic readers in Indology or Buddhist studies, this is essential; for anyone else, it is inaccessible by design.
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