Moving from the Conditioned towards the Ineffable: Referential Imaging and its Absence in Buddhist Meditation
After briefly discussing how the 'unconditioned' or 'uncompounded' (Skt. asa?sk?ta) is understood and defined in Buddhism, our enquiry will focus on the topic of meditation (Skt. bhavana). The latter plays a crucial role in facilitating the passage from the conditioned plight of...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Peeters
[2017]
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| In: |
Ephemerides theologicae Lovanienses
Year: 2017, Volume: 93, Issue: 3, Pages: 431-443 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Buddhism
/ Meditation
/ Transcendence
/ Self-abnegation
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BL Buddhism |
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| Summary: | After briefly discussing how the 'unconditioned' or 'uncompounded' (Skt. asa?sk?ta) is understood and defined in Buddhism, our enquiry will focus on the topic of meditation (Skt. bhavana). The latter plays a crucial role in facilitating the passage from the conditioned plight of cyclic existence (Skt. sa?sara) to the ineffable peace of transcendence (Skt. nirva?a). It can be seen as a means of deconstructing the mind's conditioning in order to reveal the uncompounded. The present paper will examine how in this process meditation initially makes use of referential imaging (Skt. alambana) to then progress towards non-referential (Skt. analambana) modes of contemplation. |
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| ISSN: | 1783-1423 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Ephemerides theologicae Lovanienses
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2143/ETL.93.3.3248505 |