Numinous Presences in Two Buddhist Sūtras:

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" Numinous Presences in Two Buddhist Sūtras: "
Joseph S. O’Leary

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1067087
Doc. No	:	LA110716
Call No	:	‭10.1163/1572543X-12341446‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Joseph S. O’Leary
Title & Author	:	Numinous Presences in Two Buddhist Sūtras: [Article] : Toward a Comparative Phenomenology\ Joseph S. O’Leary
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Exchange
Date	:	2017
Volume/ Issue Number	:	46/3
Page No	:	249–263
Abstract	:	Experiences of ‘presence’ are common in religion. This essay attempts to approach presence along phenomenological lines, arguing that the pluralism of the phenomena and contexts referred to is not an obstacle to a methodologically open dialogue between different experiences. Despite the impersonalism of Buddhist conceptions of ultimate reality, personal presences play a considerable role even in two scriptures devoted to evoking this ultimate emptiness. Conversely the vibrant personalism of Biblical presentations of the divine does not exclude the possibility of a Buddhist critique and tempering of them, even if the two styles of approaching ultimate reality cannot be expected to coincide.
Descriptor	:	comparative theology
Descriptor	:	General
Descriptor	:	Heart Sūtra
Descriptor	:	phenomenology
Descriptor	:	presence
Descriptor	:	Theology and World Christianity
Descriptor	:	triple body of Buddha
Descriptor	:	Vimalakīrti-nirdeśa Sūtra
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/1572543X-12341446‬