{"id":4585,"date":"2021-06-27T15:40:33","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T15:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dhammadipa.cz\/cs\/?post_type=recordings&#038;p=4585"},"modified":"2026-06-15T18:42:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T18:42:16","slug":"kumarajivas-meditation-manual","status":"publish","type":"recordings","link":"https:\/\/dhammadipa.cz\/cs\/recordings\/kumarajivas-meditation-manual\/","title":{"rendered":"Kumarajiva&#8217;s Meditation Manual"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Online lecture series<\/strong>: Kumarajiva&#8217;s Meditation Manual<br><strong>Place<\/strong>: Somaiya Vidyavihar University (<a href=\"https:\/\/kjsids.somaiya.edu\">somaiya.edu<\/a>), Mumbai, India<br><strong>Date<\/strong>: 02.03. 2021 &#8211; 10.20. 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Audio<\/strong>: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/compress\/2021-kumarajiva-india\/formats=VBR%20MP3&#038;file=\/2021-kumarajiva-india.zip\" target=\"_blank\">Download<\/a> or <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/2021-kumarajiva-india\" target=\"_blank\">Archive.org<\/a><br><strong>Bhante&#8217;s working version of English translation<\/strong>: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/compress\/2021-kumarajiva-india\/formats=TEXT%20PDF&#038;file=\/2021-kumarajiva-india.zip\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><br><strong>KJ Somaiya Institute of Dharma Studies<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLS01saClHq5w2Sl-hVsoVoe6A6ttvoukJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">YouTube Channel<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>We thank Somaiya University for their kindness and for sharing these great lectures.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>This is the series of lectures by Ven. Dhammadipa, starting from 3rd Feb 2021, organized by KJ Somaiya Institute of Dharma Studies, Somaiya Vidyavihar University. These teachings are based on one of the three meditation manuals ascribed to Kumarajiva in Chinese catalogues: the Chanfa yaojie, which Ven. Dhammadipa has translated into English. The special features of the text are the incorporation of bodhisattva ideas into classical Buddhist meditation. He will use selections from the text to explicate the meditation method in comparative light, drawing extensively upon his study of the Abhidharmakosa and his long years of study and practice guided by his teachers of the forest tradition in Sri Lanka and Burma.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10669,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true},"post_media":[25,244,361],"language":[105],"place":[298],"topic":[6,10,18,21,52,89,110,154,167,176,190,197,271,274,348,364,385],"text_authors":[],"class_list":["post-4585","recordings","type-recordings","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","post_media-audio","post_media-photos","post_media-video","language-english","place-somaiya-vidyavihar-university","topic-abhijna","topic-all-traditions-theravada","topic-arupa-dhjana","topic-asubha-bhavana","topic-brahmaviharas","topic-dhjana","topic-four-noble-truths","topic-karuna","topic-kumarajiva","topic-mahajana","topic-metta-2","topic-mudita","topic-samadhi-2","topic-samatha","topic-upekha","topic-vipassana-2","topic-zen"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhammadipa.cz\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/recordings\/4585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhammadipa.cz\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/recordings"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhammadipa.cz\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/recordings"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhammadipa.cz\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhammadipa.cz\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhammadipa.cz\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_media","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhammadipa.cz\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_media?post=4585"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhammadipa.cz\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=4585"},{"taxonomy":"place","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhammadipa.cz\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/place?post=4585"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhammadipa.cz\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=4585"},{"taxonomy":"text_authors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhammadipa.cz\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/text_authors?post=4585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}