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The Twilight Language : Explorations in Buddhist Meditation and Symbolism - Roderick Bucknell

The Twilight Language

Explorations in Buddhist Meditation and Symbolism

By: Roderick Bucknell, Martin Stuart-Fox

Paperback | 17 January 1995 | Edition Number 1

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This book investigates two matters which initially appear unconnected: the nature of Buddha's enlightenment and the meaning of Buddhist symbolism. It concludes that these are in fact connected because they ultimately deal with meditative practice. The authors examine the relationship that appears to exist between Buddhist meditative techniques and certain examples of Buddhist symbolism as found in the earliest Pali texts and in the so-called "twilight language" of the tantras. In doing so, they bring together two approaches of Buddhist hermeneutics which in the past have never been properly integrated: the meditative-descriptive approach and the scholarly-historical approach. The result is an original interpretation of the higher stages of the Buddhist path of enlightenment, and of key aspects of Buddhist cosmology and doctrine.

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