Christians Talk About Buddhist Meditation, Buddhists Talk About Christian Prayer

A discussion of the merits and disadvantages of Buddhist and Christian approaches to prayer and meditation.

What can a Christian, for example, learn from the mental and physical rigor of Buddhist meditative practice? What can a Buddhist learn from traditional Christian prayer? Can one mix distinct religious identity (Christian) with practice techniques associated with another religion (Buddhist) without compromising the religious specificity of either the identities or the techniques?

Christian contributors include: Frances S Adeny, Mary Frohlich, Paul O Ingram, Ursula King, Donald Mitchell, Terry C Muck, Bardwell Smith.

Buddhist contributors include: Robert Aitken, Grace Burford, Mehinda Degalle, Rita Gross, Kenneth Tanaka, Robert Thurman, Taitetsu Unno.