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Traditional Theravada Meditation and its Modern-Era Suppression

This book generates a particularly complex thesis, showing how traditional Theravada meditation applied to soteriology a range of advanced technologies of transformation, namely ayurvedic obstetrics, generative grammar, mathematics, alchemy; and delivery methods such as substitution, intranasal and iterative suffusion. When these methods were undermined in Asia in the colonial period, traditional meditation was suppressed as unorthodox. It required the collection and analysis of a considerable body of unpublished, difficult to access manuscripts, and interviews in eight languages. It results from 20 years’ research and pieces together a puzzle unresolved by scholars for 120 years.