Napakadol Kittisenee on "Two Accounts of Mindfulness in the Face of Death Sentence"

October 18, 2021 00:21:11
Napakadol Kittisenee on "Two Accounts of Mindfulness in the Face of Death Sentence"
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Napakadol Kittisenee on "Two Accounts of Mindfulness in the Face of Death Sentence"

Oct 18 2021 | 00:21:11

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Frances Garrett Tony Scott

Show Notes

This presentation by Napakadol Kittisenee offers two insightful accounts of the (former) prisoners on the brink of their death sentence. This illuminates how both of them went through self-transformation process in the context of Buddhist meditation. The sharing is based on the reflection of a memoir by a Thai man on his last moment at San Quentin in 1999 along with an ethnographic account Napakadol Kittisenee conducted over the last ten years with a Cambodian woman who witnessed the atrocities under the Khmer Rouge regime in the late 1970s.

This presentation is part of the Buddhism and Breath Summit, which took place online in 2021, with a group of researchers exploring Buddhist practices of working with the breath or the “winds” of the body. The event was co-hosted by Frances Garrett and Pierce Salguero, and co-sponsored by the Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Centre for Buddhist Studies at the University of Toronto and Jivaka.net. You can watch the video of this talk and find other resources from the Buddhism and Breath Summit at Jivaka.net

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