Check out this fascinating article from Federico Divino of the University of Antwerp on #ethnography and #meditation !
Read it here: contemplativejournal.org#/texts/67627
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Oludamini Ogunnaike is an Associate Professor of African Religious Thought and Democracy at the University of Virginia.
You can find the entire series of What is Contemplation? interviews with leading experts here: contemplativejournal.org/what-is-cont...
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Practicing the βThreefold Mysteryβ: Rethinking a Shingon Ritual from Dichotomy to Dialectic
Richard K. Payne, Institute of Buddhist Studies
Keywords: Tantric Buddhism, ritual, tantra, Shingon (ηθ¨), threefold mystery (sanmitsu, δΈε―), threefold contemplation, praxis, doctrine
Abstract: After a century and a half of focus on Buddhist doctrine, academic attention is increasingly being paid to practice. What remains undertheorized, however, is the relation between the two. An example of this is the idea that tantric practice is simply a ritual technology, separate and autonomous from doctrinal formulation. This is a persisting academic trope, one that conceptualizes doctrine and practice dichotomously. The effect that dichotomizing doctrine from practice has on the study of contemplative practices is considered in this essay, which first introduces the trope and then explores its supports in Western intellectual culture. Despite its prevalence, the dichotomous representation of doctrine and practice is methodologically dysfunctional. As an alternative, it is proposed that the relation between doctrine and practice is better understood as dialectical, sometimes represented in Buddhist literature by the image of βthe two wings of a bird.β This relation is explored by examining a particular tantric ritual, a Shingon homa.
We have a new article from our special issue on Philosophy and Contemplation in Tantric Buddhism!
"Practicing the 'Threefold Mystery': Rethinking a Shingon Ritual from Dichotomy to Dialectic" by Richard K. Payne
Read it here: bit.ly/41zJr4v
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What is Contemplation? An Interview With Yuria Celidwen - Journal of Contemplative Studies
Conducted by Devin Zuckerman, a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Contemplative Sciences Center. JCS: So, letβs begin with the first question: What is contemplation? YC: I come from a village cal...
We recently interviewed Yuria Celidwen, author of Flourishing Kin: Indigenous Wisdom for Collective Well-Being, for our "What is #Contemplation?" series.
"Contemplation implies an acknowledgment of the mysterious, often concealed journey that brings meaning to fruition." bit.ly/3ON9q0v
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