Esoteric Theravada: The Story of the Forgotten Meditation Tradition of Southeast Asia by Kate Crosby

Scholar Kate Crosby presents the first English-language exploration of boran kammatthana, a once-dominant traditional Theravada meditation system of Southeast Asia.

Drawing on a quarter century of research, she discusses how this embodied, esoteric practice differs from reformed, text-based meditations such as vipassana and how it was marginalized in the modern era.