Buddhist Meditation.

Buddhist meditation is fundamentally concerned with two themes, transforming the mind and using it to explore itself and other phenomena.Buddhism the Buddha taught two types of meditation, Samatha meditation and Vipassana meditation. In Chinese Buddhism,these exist(Translated Chih kuan), but Chan (Zen)meditation is more popular. According to peter harvey, whenever Buddhism has been healthy, not only monks, nuns. also committed lay people have practiced meditation. At the time of Buddha many Male and female lay practiceners did practice meditation.