These days, insight meditation (vipassana) has a global reach
in both religious and secular settings, but the precise circumstances and
reasons for its transformation into a mass movement have remained unexplained.
This talk will examine the Burmese colonial context of the late nineteenth and
twentieth centuries—where the queen and the monk met—to trace the rise of modern
insight practice and the logic of its development up to the present day.
Friday, February 07, 2014
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
243 Royce Hall
Erik Braun received his PhD from the Committee on the Study of Religion at
Harvard University. He recently published the book The Birth of Insight:
Meditation, Modern Buddhism, and the Burmese Monk Ledi Sayadaw and now teaches
at the University of Oklahoma.Special Instructions
Pay parking available on Lot 5 Level 6
Cost : Free and open to the public
http://web.international.ucla.edu/buddhist/events/10414
