Verses from the Center: A Buddhist Vision of the SublimeThe understanding of the nature of reality is the insight upon which the Buddha was able to achieve his own enlightenment. This vision of the sublime is the source of all that is enigmatic and paradoxical about Buddhism. In Verses from the Center, Stephen Batchelor explores the history of this concept and provides readers with translations of the most important poems ever written on the subject, the poems of 2nd century philosopher Nagarjuna. |
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... Coleridge , a poet whose intellectual brilliance , chaotic private life and drug addiction made him the dark genius of the En- glish Romantic movement . For Coleridge , the creative sensibility consisted in the " suspension of the Act ...
... Coleridge , a poet whose intellectual brilliance , chaotic private life and drug addiction made him the dark genius of the En- glish Romantic movement . For Coleridge , the creative sensibility consisted in the " suspension of the Act ...
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... Coleridge and Keats undertook long walking tours through inhospitable landscapes that afforded them awestruck glimpses of the power and magnitude of the natural world . While in Ger- many in 1799 , Coleridge described in his journal how ...
... Coleridge and Keats undertook long walking tours through inhospitable landscapes that afforded them awestruck glimpses of the power and magnitude of the natural world . While in Ger- many in 1799 , Coleridge described in his journal how ...
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... Coleridge : Darker Reflections , 130. Coleridge later developed this idea into his famous expression “ the will- ing suspension of disbelief . " p . 46 ... by alternate pulses of active and passive motion ... Quoted in Holmes ...
... Coleridge : Darker Reflections , 130. Coleridge later developed this idea into his famous expression “ the will- ing suspension of disbelief . " p . 46 ... by alternate pulses of active and passive motion ... Quoted in Holmes ...
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Verses from the Center: A Buddhist Vision of the Sublime Stephen Batchelor No preview available - 2001 |
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acts anguish appear awakening awareness became become begin believe birth body born Buddha Buddhist cause Center chapter China cling confusion consciousness contingency create death depend depth described dharma Discourses doctrines early ease emerge emptiness entails essence eternity everything exist experience feel fire fixations flames follow freedom fruits future grasp happen Hui-neng human idea identical includes India insight insist language later leads letting go liberation living Mahayana matter means middle mind monk moral moving Nagarjuna Nagarjuna's Verses nature ness never nirvana notion one's oneself opens opinions original pain past path person possible practice present questions reality realize recognizes reference response reveals Sanskrit seed sense Shantideva stops sublime suffering suggest teachings things thoughts Tibetan tion trace tradition translation translation of MMK truths Tsongkhapa turn understanding Verses vision walker walking Wisdom