Modern mindfulness meditation has lost its beating communal heart
Ancestral blessings in meditation are not premodern residue. Attachment theory suggests they’re vital for compassion
by Paul Condon & John Makransky
John Makransky is professor of Buddhism and comparative theology at Boston College and a Tibetan Buddhist meditation teacher at the Foundation for Active Compassion. He is the author of Buddhahood Embodied: Sources of Controversy in India and Tibet (1997) and Awakening Through Love (2007), and coeditor with Roger Jackson of Buddhist Theology: Critical Reflections by Contemporary Buddhist Scholars (2000).
Written by John Makransky