"Knowing Body, Moving Mind makes a significant contribution to the fields of religious studies and Buddhist studies, as well as philosophical questions concerning the learning process and the mind/body relation. There is a dearth of studies on meditation in the West that have much ethnographic grounding. I know personally from speaking to many Buddhist studies teachers that they are at a loss as to what to assign students when confronting these issues. There are, as the author points out, many surveys and histories of East-West transmissions, but very little ethnographically. This book is a landmark in this respect."
