pThe book offers a comprehensive discussion on the Buddhist liberation and meditation concepts based on the original P257li scriptures of Therav257da Buddhism. It interprets the early Buddhist soteriology critically and sympathetically by interweaving the Buddhological and the Buddhistic debates on understanding the Buddha's original teaching on bondage, liberation, liberated ones, and meditation. It showcases the liberal and pluralistic character of early Buddhist soteriology by interpreting it psychologically through the lens of the Buddha's recognition of two sets of psychosomatic and epistemic mental configurations active in the human mind. It shows how this dualism pervades the early Buddhist soteriology by pointing out its recognition of craving and ignorance as two causes of suffering the emancipation of mind and the emancipation by wisdom as two constituents of liberation and the meditative appeasing and the meditative watching as two methods to attain that liberation. It demon