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Bright On BuddhismWhat are pretas in Buddhism?Bright on Buddhism Episode 70 - What are pretas in Buddhism? What is their status in the canon? How ought we understand them?
Resources: Firth, Shirley. End of Life: A Hindu View. The Lancet 2005, 366:682-86; Sharma, H.R. Funeral Pyres Report. Benares Hindu University 2009.; Garuda Purana. J.L. Shastri/A board of scholars. Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi 1982.; Garuda Purana. Ernest Wood, S.V. Subrahmanyam, 1911.; Monier-Williams, Monier M. Sir. A Sanskrit-English dictionary. Delhi, India : Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 1990. ISBN 81-208-0069-9.; Adrian Cirlea, Josho (29 August 2017). "Contemplating the Suffering of Hungry Ghosts (Pretas)". Amida-Ji Retreat Temple Romania.; Hackley...
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African(a) and South Asian PhilosophiesEpisode 5: A Yogācāra Buddhist Theory of Metaphor and cross-cultural philosophy with Dr. Roy TzoharIn this episode, MPhil Buddhist Studies students Cody Fuller and alicehankwinham interview Professor Tzohar (associate professor in the East and South Asian Studies Department at Tel Aviv University). They interview him about his landmark work in Buddhist philosophy of language, A Yogācāra Buddhist Theory of Metaphor (OUP 2018). They talk about compelling issues in cross-cultural hermeneutics, ethics, and philosophy of language that arise directly from the research covered in the book developing an early Indian philosophical theory of metaphor –little of the likes which exists in contemporary analytic philosophy today. We explore the implications of 6th-century Indian scholar Sthiramati’s clai...
2021-11-042h 07African(a) and South Asian PhilosophiesEpisode 5: A Yogācāra Buddhist Theory of Metaphor and cross-cultural philosophy with Dr. Roy TzoharIn this episode, MPhil Buddhist Studies students Cody Fuller and alicehankwinham interview Professor Tzohar (associate professor in the East and South Asian Studies Department at Tel Aviv University). They interview him about his landmark work in Buddhist philosophy of language, A Yogācāra Buddhist Theory of Metaphor (OUP 2018). They talk about compelling issues in cross-cultural hermeneutics, ethics, and philosophy of language that arise directly from the research covered in the book developing an early Indian philosophical theory of metaphor –little of the likes which exists in contemporary analytic philosophy today. We explore the implications of 6th-century Indian scholar Sthiramati’s clai...
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