1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990005861310403321

Titolo

A handbook of the troubadours / edited by F. R. P. Akehurst and Judith M. Davis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley : University of California press, 1995

ISBN

0-520-07976-0

Descrizione fisica

VII, 502 p. ; 23 cm

Disciplina

849.1209

Locazione

FLFBC

Collocazione

849.1209 AKE 1

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA990005806430203316

Autore

DESCARGUES, Pierre

Titolo

Vermeer / Pierre Descargues ; traduzione di Angelica Tizzo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano : Abscondita, 2012

ISBN

978-88-8416-375-2

Descrizione fisica

125 p. ; 21 cm

Collana

Miniature ; 93

Disciplina

759.9492

Soggetti

Pittura olandese - Sec. 16.-17

Collocazione

XII.2. Coll. 46/ 58

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



3.

Record Nr.

UNISOBE600200018163

Autore

Beyer, Dominique

Titolo

Les sceaux / Dominique Beyer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Fribourg (CH), : Editions Universitaires

Göttingen, : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2001

ISBN

3525530013

Descrizione fisica

XIX, 490 p., c.di tav. f.t. : ill. ; 33 cm

Collana

Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis : series archaeologica ; 20

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Fa parte di : Emar IV - mission archéologique de Meskéné-Emar recherches au pays d'Astata

4.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910966002103321

Autore

McMahan David L.

Titolo

Empty vision : metaphor and visionary imagery in Mahayana Buddhism / / David L. McMahan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-138-86260-6

1-315-02897-2

1-136-85726-5

1-136-85719-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (238 p.)

Collana

The Curzon critical studies in Buddhism series

Disciplina

294.392

Soggetti

Mahayana Buddhism

Metaphor - Religious aspects - Buddhism

Vision - Religious aspects - Buddhism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 2002 by RoutledgeCurzon.



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Technical Note on Terms; Introduction; 1 The Devaluation of Language and the Privileging of Perception; Language and Concepts in Early Buddhism; Abhidharma and Dharma Theory; Mahāyāna Views on Language and Concepts; Dialectical Patterns in the Perfection of Wisdom Literature; Dialectic, Paradox, and Discourse; The Paradoxical Dialectic and Buddhist History; Discursive Thinking and the Construction of the Lifeworld; Perception in Indian Buddhism and Indian Philosophy

2 Buddhist Visuality in History and MetaphorVision in Indo-European Language and History; Metaphors and Their Functions; Visual Metaphor in Buddhist Discourse; Related Metaphors for Knowledge and Awakening; The Meaning and Significance of Space in Buddhist Discourse; Conclusion; 3 Orality, Writing, and Authority: Visionary Literature and the Struggle for Legitimacy in the Māhayāna; Orality In Early Buddhism; Writing in the Early Mahāyāna; Writing and the Survival of the Mahāyāna; Sacred Text and Sacred Site; Writing and the Visual

The Buddhavacana and Strategies of Legitimation in the MahāyānaVisionary Literature and Grounds for Legitimacy; Conclusion; 4 Realms of the Senses: Buddha Fields and Fields of Vision in the Gandavyūha Sūtra; Historical Context of the Gandavyūha; Visionary Literature and Thaumaturgy in India; Buddha-Fields and Images of Kingship; Elements of the Narrative; Vision and Doctrine; Dialectics of Words and Dialectics of Vision; Concretization of Metaphor; 5 The Optics of Buddhist Meditation and Devotion; Vision and Visualization in Early and Non-Mahāyāna Meditation; Meditation and Mental Imagery

Vision and DevotionDharma, Buddha, Stupa, and Saint; Recollection of the Buddha and Visualization Sūtras; Image Worship and Darśan; Asaṅga on the Buddha's Bodies; Tantric Visualization Practices; Stages of Tantric Sādhana; Mandala and Sūtra Imagery; Embodiment and Resemblance; The Somaticization of Doctrine; 6 Conclusions and Occlusions; Ocularcentrism in European and American Philosophy; Ocularcentrism in Buddhist Traditions; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Visual metaphors in a number of Mahayana sutras construct a discourse in which visual perception serves as a model for knowledge and enlightenment. In the Perfection of Wisdom (Prajnaparamita) and other Mahayana literature, immediate access to reality is symbolized by vision and set in opposition to language and conceptual thinking, which are construed as obscuring reality. In addition to its philosophical manifestations, the tension between vision and language also functioned as a strategy of legitimation in the struggle of the early heterodox Mahayana movement for authority and legitimacy. T