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The Jhanas
in Theravada Buddhist Meditation

by
Bhikkhu Henepola Gunaratana

The Wheel Publication No. 351/353,
Buddhist Publication Society, Sri Lanka
Copyright 1988 by Henepola Gunaratana

This book is an abridged version of the author’s “The Path of Serenity and Insight: An Explanation of the Buddhist Jhanas“, Copyright 1985 Motilal Banarsidass, New Delhi.
This abridgment is published in the Wheel series by permission of the original publisher.

Buddhist Publication Society
PO Box 61 54, Sangharaja Mawatha Kandy, Sri Lanka
ISBN 955-24-0035-X

Transcription: Bill Petrow
Proofreading: Jane Yudelman
Formatting: John Bullitt

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