Open AccessMindfulness of Breathing in the Samyukta-agama
Author(s) -
Ven. Anālayo
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
buddhist studies review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.109
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 1747-9681
pISSN - 0265-2897
DOI - 10.1558/bsrv.v24i2.137
Subject(s) - mindfulness , breathing , psychotherapist , psychology , translation (biology) , psychiatry , biology , biochemistry , messenger rna , gene
The present article supplies an annotated translation of the sixteenfold instructions on mindfulness of breathing in the Chinese Samyukta-agama. These instructions show how mindfulness of breathing fulfi ls the four satipatthanas and leads to the development of the seven bojjhangas, thereby leading to knowledge and liberation. The translation is followed by a comparison with its Pali counterpart, the Ananda-sutta in the Samyutta-nikaya.