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Notes
1. The Cavendish is a cloned cultivar and, lacking genetic diversity, its commercial future is threatened by a number of diseases, especially the banana bunchy top virus. This was the fate of its commercial predecessor, the Gros Michel, which succumbed to Panama disease.
2. Definitional methods are usefully discussed in the context of defining Mahayana Buddhism in Silk (Citation2002).
3. See Nancy Eberhardt (Citation2017) on how localised meditation practices have changed and been replaced by more structured Vipassana meditation in a rural Shan community in Mae Hong Son province of Thailand, and how such Vipassana meditation is adversely affecting older practitioners; and also Khur-Yearn’s contribution to this volume for a discussion of changes to Shan meditation practices over the past century in relation to Vipassana.
4. We paraphrase here Stephen Pattison’s phrasing from his discussion of theology in the public sphere (Pattison Citation2007, 227).
5. Maggie Ross comments, on the difficulty of writing about the Christian contemplative tradition, ‘It is folly to examine texts that teach contemplation using the very system of thought against which they are written. To use a methodology that demands closure on a text that is leading the reader into infinite openness not only destroys it, but also locks the reader into lesser beholdings’ (Ross Citation2013, 50). It may be that scholars working on Buddhist meditative traditions can look for precedents and guidance from authors such as she.