Unifying Opposites through Metaphor: A Cognitive Approach to the Buddhist Metaphors for the Mind in the Awakening of Faith Discourse

While metaphors for the human mind have been intensively discussed across multiple disciplines, there remains a gap on how Buddhism deals with the mind metaphorically. This study explores how Mahāyāna Buddhist discourse resorts to embodied and discursive metaphors in describing and explaining the mi...

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Main Author: Kang, Byongchang (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: MDPI [2018]
In: Religions
Year: 2018, Volume: 9, Issue: 11, Pages: 1-20
Further subjects:B analogical metaphor
B Mahāyāna Buddhism
B Mind
B Dasheng qixin lun
B Conceptual Metaphor Theory
B primary metaphor
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