The Two Traditions of Meditations in Ancient India

Abstract

In this book.i.Johannes highlights the early Buddhist teachings and
briefs concerning meditation and its role to liberation. It is to find but
what early Buddhist meditation was bv asserting what it: was riot.
In a number of cases the Buddhist cannon rejects practices which they
accept elsewhere. The altre~native practices hi Buddhism cannot be
considered as authentic but as later borrowing from out side. This
book, in fact, allows us to, obtain more insight into the alternative,
non-Buddhist.' practices especially of the early period.