MEDITATION AND RITUAL IN NEO-CONFUCIAN, TRADITION
Keywords:
Sagehood through Self-cultivation, Interior Path of Self-cultivation, Rituals of Self-cultivation, Diary of self-examination, Activity in QuiescenceAbstract
Compared with the study of the meditative traditions in Buddhism and Hinduism, American scholarly research on medita- tion in Chinese Neo-Confucianism has only begun to flourish. The .following essay is intended as a general introduction to the problem of quite-sitting (ching-tso) as a meditative form of Neo- Confucian self-cultivation which, as will be shown later, is related to the Neo-Confucian concept of action as ritual.
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