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| Emptiness and Unknowing: An Essay in Comparative Mysticism | ||
| 作者 | Gethin, Rupert |
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| 出處題名 | Buddhist Studies Review |
| 卷期 | v.35 n.1-2 |
| 出版日期 | 2018 |
| 頁次 | 81 - 96 |
| 出版者 | Equinox Publishing Ltd. |
| 出版者網址 | https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/ |
| 出版地 | Sheffield, UK [謝菲爾德, 英國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Special Issue: Buddhist Path, Buddhist Teachings: Studies in Memory of L.S. Cousins Author Affiliations: Department of Religion and Theology, Centre for Buddhist Studies, University of Bristol |
| 關鍵詞 | mysticism; meditation; emptiness; Buddhism; apophaticism; Cūḷa-Suññata-sutta; The Cloud of Unknowing; perennialism; constructivism |
| 摘要 | Over the last fifty years the study of mysticism has been shaped by the debate between ‘perennialists’, who claim that mystical experiences are the same across different cultures, and ‘constructivists’, who claim that mystical experiences are shaped by, and hence specific to, particular religious traditions. The constructivist view is associated with the ‘discursive turn’ that has dominated the humanities for the last half century, emphasising cultural relativism. Nonetheless, the constructivist position is not without problems. Inspired in part by Lance Cousins’ 1989 comparison of Buddhaghosa’s Path of Purification and Teresa of Ávila’s Interior Castle, the present article seeks to bring out parallels in the contemplative exercises and the progress of the ‘spiritual life’ found in Buddhist accounts of meditation (such as the Cūḷa-Suññata-sutta) and Christian apophaticism (as presented in The Cloud of Unknowing). The article seeks to establish specific parallels in the techniques of and approaches to contemplative practice in both traditions, as well as in the phenomenology of the experiences of the meditator (yogāvacara) or contemplative at different stages in the work of meditation and contemplation. |
| ISSN | 02652897 (P); 17479681 (E) |
| DOI | 10.1558/bsrv.36754 |
| 點閱次數 | 451 |
| 建檔日期 | 2021.01.01 |
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