Buddhism and the senses: a guide to the good and bad
Klappentext: "Following 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 bet...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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[Washington, DC]
National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian
[2024]
New York, NY Wisdom [2024] |
| In: | Year: 2024 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Buddhism
/ Sense
/ Sensuality
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| IxTheo Classification: | AE Psychology of religion AG Religious life; material religion BL Buddhism |
| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B Buddhism Doctrines B Senses and sensation Religious aspects Buddhism B Sensuality Religious aspects Buddhism |
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Inhaltsbeschreibung Table of Contents Inhaltsverzeichnis (Aggregator) Blurb |
| Summary: | Klappentext: "Following 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 all manner of 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 preach 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"-- Inhaltsverzeichnis: Exhibiting the Senses Encountering the Buddha at the National Museum of Asian Art / Debra Diamond -- Introduction / Robert DeCaroli and Donald S. Lopez Jr. -- Sight: Avoiding Eye Contact: The Negative Aspects of Sight in Early South Asian Buddhism / Robert DeCaroli -- Seeing Splendor and Envisioning Hell: The Moral Economy in Thai-Buddhist Merit-Making / Melody Rod-Ari -- Sound: Bewildering Sounds of the Bardo / Kurtis R. Schaeffer -- The Sound of Music / Donald Lopez -- Smell: What Is Bad about Bad Smell?: Relativity, Relationship, and Revelation in the Buddhist Olfactory Imagination / Lina Verchery -- Thus Have I Smelled / John Strong -- Taste: The Case of the Five Pungent Vegetables / James Robson -- Sweetness and Power: The Buddhist Transformation of Taste / D. Max Moerman -- Touch: Infectious Touch and the Buddha's Seven Zombies Spell (Saptavetāḍaka-dhāraṇī) / Bryan J. Cuevas -- A Science of Pleasurable Touch? Sex Rules in the Vinaya / Reiko Ohnuma -- Contributors. |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references |
| Physical Description: | xviii, 240 Seiten, Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 1614298904 |