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The Awakened Ones : Phenomenology of Visionary Experience /
While a rational consciousness grasps many truths, Gananath Obeyesekere believes an even richer knowledge is possible through a bold confrontation with the stuff of visions and dreams. Spanning both Buddhist and European forms of visionary experience, he fearlessly pursues the symbolic, nonrational...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Columbia University Press,
[2012]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List Of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Book 1. The Visionary Experience: Theoretical Understandings
- Book 2. Mahāyāna: Salvific Emptiness, Fullness of Vision
- Book 3. The Cosmic "It": The Abstract Being of the Intellectuals
- Book 4. Penitential Ecstasy: The Dark Night of the Soul
- Book 5. Christian Dissent: The Protest Against Reason
- Book 6. Theosophies: West Meets East
- Book 7. Modernity and the Dreaming
- Book 8. Contemporary Dreaming: Secular Spirituality and Revelatory Truth
- Envoi-Intimations of Mortality: The Ethnographer'S Dream and the Return of the Vultures
- Notes
- Glossary
- Index