Shimmering mirrors : reality and appearance in contemplative metaphysics East and West / Patrick Laude.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Laude, Patrick, 1958- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religions.

Contemplation.

Metaphysics.

Philosophy and religion.

Physical Description:

ix, 262 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2017]

Summary:

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 discussions of the Absolute and the Relative in Hindu Advaita Ved?nta, Kashmiri ?aivism, Sufi wahdat al-wuj?d, and Madhyamaka Buddhism; the metaphysics of salvation in Buddhist and Christian traditions; and the metaphysics of evil and the distinction between Reality and Appearance in the Jewish Kabbalah, ?aivism, Christian mysticism, and the Sufi school of Ibn al-?Arab?. The book explores how a discerning and subtle apprehension of the relationship between Reality and Appearance may help contemporary readers and seekers respond to the acute predicaments of contemporary religious and spiritual consciousness.

Contents:

1 Shimmering Reality: Contemplative and Mystical Concepts of Relativity 9

2 Christian and Buddhist Insights into a Metaphysics of Salvation 47

3 On the Good beyond Good and Evil 97

4 On Hindu Bheddbheda and Sufi Barzakh 113

5 Knowing the Unknowable: Upaya and Gods of Belief 149

6 Transmutation, the Sacred Word, and the Feminine 189.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Laude, Patrick, 1958- author. Shimmering mirrors

ISBN:

9781438466811

1438466811

OCLC:

987678756