A Sinhala-language handbook on samatha meditation, written by Uthurawala Dhammarathana Thero and published in Colombo by M. D. Gunasena & Co. The text is entirely in Sinhala, with no English translation, so it will suit readers who are comfortable reading the language rather than those approaching Buddhist practice through English sources.
The author's starting point is that meditation matters not only for the path to nibbana but also for worldly progress and for physical and mental ease. From there the book sets out samatha practice in detail: what tranquillity meditation is, the classical set of meditation subjects, or kammatthana, and the question of how a practitioner chooses among them. Diagrams accompany the explanations throughout.
It is a practical manual rather than a work of commentary or scholarship — the sort of book bought by someone beginning a meditation practice under instruction, or by a reader who wants the traditional material laid out methodically in their own language. M. D. Gunasena is a long-established Colombo publisher issuing titles in Sinhala and English, with a steady list of Buddhist works for general readers.
- Author: Uthurawala Dhammarathana Thero
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- ISBN: 9789552113949
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