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Buddhism and the Senses
- A Guide to the Good and Bad
Engelsk
Bogcover for Buddhism and the Senses af , 9781614298908
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
264
ISBN-13:
9781614298908
Indbinding:
Hardback
ISBN-10:
1614298904
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Udg. Dato:
24 okt 2024
Størrelse i cm:
16,4 x 23,7 x 2,6
Oplagsdato:
24 okt 2024

Buddhism and the Senses

- A Guide to the Good and Bad
Engelsk
Hardback 2024
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Across Buddhist traditions, the five senses—sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch—are perceived both positively and negatively. Share our eminent scholars’ fascination and deep insight into what makes a sensuous experience good or bad.

Following on the exhibition Encountering the Buddha: Art and Practice across Asia at the National Museum of Asian Art, ten eminent scholars present their insights into Buddhism’s fascinating relation with the five senses (sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch), which careens between delight and disgust, rarely finding a middle way. While much of Buddhist literature is devoted to overcoming the attachment that dooms us to rebirth in samsara, primarily by deprecating sense experience and showing that whatever brings us sensual pleasure leads only to physical and mental pain, in texts such as the Lotus Sutra, sensory powers do not offer sensory pleasure but rather knowledge, clear observation, and ability to teach the Dharma. Considering such religiously and historically contingent ambiguity, this volume presents each of the five senses in two instantiations, the good and the bad, opening up the discourse on the senses across Buddhist traditions.

Just as the museum departed from tradition to incorporate sensory experiences into the exhibition, this volume is a new direction in scholarship to humanize Buddhist studies by foregrounding sensory experience and practice, inviting the reader to think about the senses in a focused manner and shifting our understanding of Buddhism from the conceptual to the material or practical, from the idealized to the human, from the abstract to the grounded, from the mind to the body.
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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
264
ISBN-13:
9781614298908
Indbinding:
Hardback
ISBN-10:
1614298904
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
24 okt 2024
Størrelse i cm:
16,4 x 23,7 x 2,6
Oplagsdato:
24 okt 2024
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