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Seeing Perfection
Author | : Rune Nyord |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 171 |
Release | : 2020-11-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781108896719 |
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This Element offers a new approach to ancient Egyptian images informed by interdisciplinary work in archaeology, anthropology, and art history. Sidestepping traditional perspectives on Egyptian art, the Element focuses squarely on the ontological status of the image in ancient thought and experience. To accomplish this, section 2 takes up a number of central Egyptian terms for images, showing that a close examination of their etymology and usage can help resolve long-standing question on Egyptian imaging practices. Section 3 discusses ancient Egyptian experiences of materials and manufacturing processes, while section 4 categorizes and discusses the different purposes and functions for which images were created. The Element as a whole thus offers a concise introduction to ancient Egyptian imaging practices for an interdisciplinary readership, while at the same introducing new ways of thinking about familiar material for the Egyptological reader.
Naked Seeing
Author | : Christopher Hatchell |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 497 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780199982905 |
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Buddhism is in many ways a visual tradition, with its well-known practices of visualization, its visual arts, its epistemological writings that discuss the act of seeing, and its literature filled with images and metaphors of light. Some Buddhist traditions are also visionary, advocating practices by which meditators seek visions that arise before their eyes. Naked Seeing investigates such practices in the context of two major esoteric traditions, the Wheel of Time (Kalacakra) and the Great Perfection (Dzogchen). Both of these experimented with sensory deprivation, and developed yogas involving long periods of dwelling in dark rooms or gazing at the open sky. These produced unusual experiences of seeing, which were used to pursue some of the classic Buddhist questions about appearances, emptiness, and the nature of reality. Along the way, these practices gave rise to provocative ideas and suggested that, rather than being apprehended through internal insight, religious truths might also be seen in the exterior world-realized through the gateway of the eyes. Christopher Hatchell presents the intellectual and literary histories of these practices, and also explores the meditative techniques and physiology that underlie their distinctive visionary experiences. The book also offers for the first time complete English translations of three major Tibetan texts on visionary practice: a Kalacakra treatise by Yumo Mikyo Dorjé, The Lamp Illuminating Emptiness, a Nyingma Great Perfection work called The Tantra of the Blazing Lamps, and a Bön Great Perfection work called Advice on the Six Lamps, along with a detailed commentary on this by Drugom Gyalwa Yungdrung.
The Great Perfection rdzogs chen
Author | : Samten Karmay |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2007-03-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789047419785 |
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The Great Perfection (rDzogs chen in Tibetan) is a philosophical and meditative teaching. Its inception is attributed to Vairocana, one of the first seven Tibetan Buddhist monks ordained at Samye in the eight century A.D. The doctrine is regarded among Buddhists as the core of the teachings adhered to by the Nyingmapa school whilst similarly it is held to be the fundamental teaching among the Bonpos, the non-Buddhist school in Tibet. After a historical introduction to Tibetan Buddhism and the Bon, the author deals with the legends of Vairocana (Part I), analysing early documents containing essential elements of the doctrine and comparing them with the Ch'an tradition. He goes on to explore in detail the development of the doctrine in the tenth and eleventh centuries A.D. (Part II). The Tantric doctrines that play an important role are dealt with, as are the rDzogs chen theories in relation to the other major Buddhist doctrines. Different trends in the rDzogs chen tradition are described in Part III. The author has drawn his sources mainly from early unpublished documents which throw light on the origins and development, at the same time also using a variety of sources which enabled him to explicate the crucial position which the doctrine occupies in Tibetan religions.
Seeing Perfection
Author | : Rune Nyord |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 75 |
Release | : 2020-11-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108744141 |
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This Element offers a new approach to ancient Egyptian images informed by interdisciplinary work in archaeology, anthropology, and art history. Sidestepping traditional perspectives on Egyptian art, the Element focuses squarely on the ontological status of the image in ancient thought and experience. To accomplish this, section 2 takes up a number of central Egyptian terms for images, showing that a close examination of their etymology and usage can help resolve long-standing question on Egyptian imaging practices. Section 3 discusses ancient Egyptian experiences of materials and manufacturing processes, while section 4 categorizes and discusses the different purposes and functions for which images were created. The Element as a whole thus offers a concise introduction to ancient Egyptian imaging practices for an interdisciplinary readership, while at the same introducing new ways of thinking about familiar material for the Egyptological reader.
Frequent Communion the most certain means of salvation and Christian perfection Translated from the French with the copious and valuable notes of the original retained Carefully revised by a Father of the Society of Jesus
Author | : Marie Joseph FAVRE |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 1847 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : BL:A0023175395 |
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On Christian Perfection
Author | : Alonso Rodriguez (Jesuit, of Valladolid.) |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1849 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : NLS:V000372387 |
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The Practice of Christian Perfection Written in Spanish Translated Into English by Sir John Warner Out of the French Copy of Mr Regnier Des Marais Etc
Author | : Saint Alonso Rodríguez |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 550 |
Release | : 1861 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : BL:A0026528260 |
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American Aviation
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 698 |
Release | : 1943 |
Genre | : Aeronautics |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105008483799 |
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