Tibetan Buddhism and mystical experience
This title connects the Tibetan Buddhist polemics over realisation of ultimate reality with contemporary debates regarding mystical experience. It argues that realization of ultimate reality as understood by Tibetan thinkers on the one hand in significant ways resembles the category of unmediated my...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford
Oxford University Press
2015
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| In: | Year: 2015 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Lamaism
/ The Absolute
/ Reality
/ Consciousness
B Mysticism |
| Further subjects: | B
Mysticism
Buddhism
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Volltext (Verlag) |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | This title connects the Tibetan Buddhist polemics over realisation of ultimate reality with contemporary debates regarding mystical experience. It argues that realization of ultimate reality as understood by Tibetan thinkers on the one hand in significant ways resembles the category of unmediated mystical experience, and on the other challenges and suggests rethinking the very meaning of that category. |
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| ISBN: | 019024500X |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190244958.001.0001 |