Ven. Dhammadipa lectures upon mindfulness and awareness.

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IBA - April 18, 2010
Mindfulness (smrti; dran pa) and awareness (samprajanya; shes bzhin): this pair of terms is crucial for our understanding of how meditation in general and the practices of śamatha (calm abiding) and vipaśyanā (insight) in particular are supposed to work. Ven. Dhammadipa elucidates those terms on the basis of two fundamental treatises of the Mahāyāna tradition, the Yogācārabhūmī and the Abhidharmasamuccaya.

Ven. Dhammadipa was born in Prague/Czech Republic in 1949. He studied Chinese and Sanskrit in Prague, Paris and India, and was ordained in both the Theravada tradition of Sri Lanka and Mahāyāna tradition of Chinese Buddhism. He received extensive meditation training in the Burmese tradition of Pa-Auk Sayadaw, who later appointed him as an instructor. Ven. Dhammadipa is an internationally renowned meditation teacher and scholar specialized in the theory and practice of śamatha and vipaśyanā.

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