Knowing Body, Moving Mind explores ritualizing and learning in meditation classes at two Buddhist centers in Toronto. Based on interviews with students and teachers, it explores the ways formal Buddhist practices generate learning; discovering that body and mind together gain new skills and understanding by way of embodied, gestural rites.

Patricia Q. Campbell is a scholar of contemporary western Buddhism and ritual studies. She has published articles based on ethnographic studies of western Buddhists in Canada, and teaches in the areas of ritual studies and eastern religions.