Advaita Vedanta and Zen Buddhism
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Advaita Vedanta and Zen Buddhism

Deconstructive Modes of Spiritual Inquiry

  1. 246 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Advaita Vedanta and Zen Buddhism

Deconstructive Modes of Spiritual Inquiry

About this book

This fascinating and innovativebook explores the relationship between the philosophical underpinnings of Advaita Vedanta, Zen Buddhism and the experiential journey of spiritual practitioners. Taking the perspective of the questioning student, the author highlights the experiential deconstructive processes that are ignited when students' "everyday" dualistic thought structures are challenged by the non-dual nature of these teachings and practices.
Although Advaita Vedanta and Zen Buddhism are ontologically different, this unique study shows that in the dynamics of the practice situation they are phenomenologically similar. Distinctive in scope and approach Advaita Vedanta and Zen Buddhism: Deconstructive Modes of Spiritual Inquiry examines Advaita and Zen as living practice traditions in which foundational non-dual philosophies are shown "in action" in contemporary Western practice situations thus linking abstract philosophical tenets to concrete living experience. As such it takes an important step toward bridging the gap between scholarly analysis and the experiential reality of these spiritual practices.

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Information

Publisher
Continuum
Year
2010
Print ISBN
9781441121097
eBook ISBN
9781441105868
Edition
1
Subtopic
Buddhism

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Abbreviations
  4. Introduction: Experiential Deconstructive Inquiry
  5. Part One: Foundational Philosophies and Spiritual Methods
  6. Part Two: Deconstructive Techniques and Dynamics of Experiential Undoing
  7. Conclusion: Deconstruction of Reified Awareness
  8. Notes
  9. Bibliography
  10. Index