Tag: Monks

Free Download Buddhist Nuns, Monks, and Other Worldly Matters: Recent Papers on Monastic Buddhism in India By Gregory Schopen
2014 | 482 Pages | ISBN: 0824838807 | PDF | 4 MB
Buddhist Nuns, Monks, and Other Worldly Matters: Recent Papers on Monastic Buddhism in India is the fourth in a series of collected essays by one of today’s most distinguished scholars of Indian Buddhism. In these articles Gregory Schopen once again displays the erudition and originality that have contributed to a major shift in the way that Indian Buddhism is perceived, understood, and studied.

Free Download Jamie Kreiner, "The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction"
English | ISBN: 1324094443 | 2024 | 288 pages | EPUB | 21 MB
A revelatory account of how Christian monks identified distraction as a fundamental challenge―and how their efforts to defeat it can inform ours, more than a millennium later.

Free Download Jason M. Brown, "Dwelling in the Wilderness: Modern Monks in the American West"
English | ISBN: 1595349790 | 2024 | 176 pages | EPUB | 3 MB

Free Download The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BZFFC6PP | 2023 | 5 hours and 31 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 299 MB
Author: Jamie Kreiner
Narrator: Jamie Kreiner
The digital era is beset by distraction, and it feels like things are only getting worse. At times like these, the distant past beckons as a golden age of attention. We dream of recapturing the quiet of a world with less noise. We imagine retreating into solitude and singlemindedness, almost like latter-day monks. But although we think of early monks as master concentrators, a life of mindfulness did not, in fact, come to them easily. As historian Jamie Kreiner demonstrates in The Wandering Mind, their attempts to stretch the mind out to God-to continuously contemplate the divine order and its ethical requirements-were all-consuming, and their battles against distraction were never-ending.