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Shimmering mirrors : reality and appearance in contemplative metaphysics East and West /
In this pioneering work of comparative metaphysics, Patrick Laude delves into Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Islamic, and Jewish concepts of Reality and Appearance to offer a uniquely lucid exploration of metaphysical representations of reality, relativity, appearance, and illusion. Laude includes disc...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany, NY :
State University of New York Press,
[2017]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Shimmering Reality: Contemplative and Mystical Concepts of Relativity
- Dispelling Appearance
- Paradoxes of Reality and Non-Reality: Appearance and Emptiness
- The Unity of Reality
- Reality as Creative Freedom
- No Reality but The Reality
- Transcendence and Immanence in the Economy of Reality
- Paradoxes of Metaphysical and Mystical Discourse
- 2 Christian and Buddhist Insights into a Metaphysics of Salvation
- Introduction of the Argument
- Seeds of Trinitarian Discourse
- Two Fundamental Intents
- Relation as Absolute and RelativeThe Buddhist Predicament
- The Relativizing Scope of Emptiness
- The Absolute as Buddha-nature
- Soku: The Relative as Absolute
- Concluding Remarks
- 3 On the Good beyond Good and Evil
- 4 On Hindu BhedÄ#x81;bheda and Sufi Barzakh
- Identity and Difference
- 5 Knowing the Unknowable: UpÄ#x81;ya and Gods of Belief
- 6 Transmutation, the Sacred Word, and the Feminine
- The Transmutational Plenitude of the One Consciousness in Å#x9A;aivism
- The One and the Unification of the Many
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography