[Buddha-l] Book on shamatha

[Margaret Gouin]

On Thu, May 24, 2007 4:36 am, jkirk wrote:
> Has anyone read _The Attention Revolution: Unlocking the Power of the
> Focused Mind_ by B. Alan Wallace? He's a copious author and has an
> institute in Santa Barbara.

Wallace has two books which treat the issue of focused mind--_The
Attention Revolution_ (2006) and _Balancing the Mind_ (2005). _Balancing_ 
uses Tsong kha pa's 'Smal Exosition of the Stages of the Path to
Enlightenment' as a base text (it's subtitled 'a Tibetan Buddhist approach
to refining attention); _Attention_ works with Kamalasila's 'Stages of
Meditation'. Haven't read either yet but can post the tables of contents
if you like. Fairly good information available on both at
www.wisdom-books.com

-- 
Margaret Gouin
PhD Candidate
Centre for Buddhist Studies
Department of Theology and Religious Studies
University of Bristol (UK)