The Unity of Mystical Traditions, The Transformation of Consciousness in Tibetan and German Mysticism.

The Unity of Mystical Traditions, The Transformation of Consciousness in Tibetan and German Mysticism.

This book argues that mystical doctrines and practices initiate parallel transformative processes in the consciousness of mystics. This thesis is supported through a comparative analysis of Tibetan Buddhist Dzogchen (rdzogs-chen) and the medieval German mysticism of Eckhart, Suso, and Tauler. These...

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Main Author: Randall Studstill

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2005.

Series: Numen Book Series 107.
Numen Book Series Online, ISBN: 9789004380837.

Subjects:

Mysticism > Comparative studies.
Mysticism > China > Tibet Autonomous Region.
Mysticism > Germany.

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Call Number: BL625 .S795 2005

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Summary:This book argues that mystical doctrines and practices initiate parallel transformative processes in the consciousness of mystics. This thesis is supported through a comparative analysis of Tibetan Buddhist Dzogchen (rdzogs-chen) and the medieval German mysticism of Eckhart, Suso, and Tauler. These traditions are interpreted using a system/cybernetic model of consciousness. This model provides a theoretical framework for assessing the cognitive effects of mystical doctrines and practices and showing how different doctrines and practices may nevertheless initiate common transformative processes. This systems approach contributes to current philosophical discourse on mysticism by (1) making possible a precise analysis of the cognitive effects of mystical doctrines and practices, and (2) reconciling mystical heterogeneity with the essential unity of mystical traditions.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
ISBN:9789047407218