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Absorption. Human Nature and Buddhist Liberation (Paperback)
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Absorption. Human Nature and Buddhist Liberation (Paperback)
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This book argues for the central role played by absorption in the
functioning of the human mind. The importance of absorption makes
itself felt in different ways; the two studies combined in this
book concentrate on two of them. The first study, The Symbolic
Mind, argues that, largely as a result of language acquisition,
humans have two levels of cognition, which in normal circumstances
are simultaneously active. Absorption is a (or the) means to
circumvent some, perhaps all, of the associations that characterize
one of these two levels of cognition, resulting in what is
sometimes referred to as mystical experience, but which is not
confined to mysticism and plays a role in various "religious"
phenomena, and elsewhere. In the second study, The Psychology of
the Buddha, Prof. Bronkhorst provides a theoretical context for the
observation that absorption is a source of pleasure, grapples with
Freud, and illustrates his observations through translations of
ancient Buddhist texts from the Pali and Sanskrit languages along
with his psychological commentary. Johannes Bronkhorst is emeritus
professor of Sanskrit and Indian studies at the University of
Lausanne. He has published widely in the history of Indian
religious, philosophical and scientific thought, and in religious
studies in general. Among his recent books: Greater Magadha (2007),
Aux origines de la philosophie indienne (2008), Buddhist Teaching
in India (2009), Buddhism in the Shadow of Brahmanism (2011), Karma
(2011).
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