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title authors external_url source_url drive_links course tags year month journal volume number pages openalexid
Mindfulness or Sati: An Anthropological Comparison of an Increasingly Global Concept
Julia Cassaniti
sati
west
theravada
pali-language
2021
may
jgb
22
1
105--120
W3167841122

… mindfulness and sati have [relationships] to particular conceptions of Temporality, Affect, Power, Ethics, and Selfhood.

Based on ethnographic data gathered from over 700 psychiatrists, Buddhist monks, lay practitioners, and others in Thailand, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and the United States, the article suggests some key mental associations in mindfulness and sati that converge and diverge across different cultural contexts.