A Buddhist Theory Of Semiotics

Author : Fabio Rambelli
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 276 pages
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Release : 2013-05-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441161963

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A Buddhist Theory of Semiotics by Fabio Rambelli Pdf

One of the first attempts ever to present in a systematic way a non-western semiotic system. This book looks at Japanese esoteric Buddhism and is based around original texts, informed by explicit and rigorous semiotic categories. It is a unique introduction to important aspects of the thought and rituals of the Japanese Shingon tradition. Semiotic concerns are deeply ingrained in the Buddhist intellectual and religious discourse, beginning with the idea that the world is not what it appears to be, which calls for a more accurate understanding of the self and reality. This in turn results in sustained discussions on the status of language and representations, and on the possibility and methods to know reality beyond delusion; such peculiar knowledge is explicitly defined as enlightenment. Thus, for Buddhism, semiotics is directly relevant to salvation; this is a key point that is often ignored even by Buddhologists. This book discusses in depth the main elements of Buddhist semiotics as based primarily on original Japanese pre-modern sources. It is a crucial publication in the fields of semiotics and religious studies.

Author : Fabio Rambelli
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441154736

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A Buddhist Theory of Semiotics by Fabio Rambelli Pdf

One of the first attempts ever to present in a systematic way a non-western semiotic system. This book looks at Japanese esoteric Buddhism and is based around original texts, informed by explicit and rigorous semiotic categories. It is a unique introduction to important aspects of the thought and rituals of the Japanese Shingon tradition. Semiotic concerns are deeply ingrained in the Buddhist intellectual and religious discourse, beginning with the idea that the world is not what it appears to be, which calls for a more accurate understanding of the self and reality. This in turn results in sustained discussions on the status of language and representations, and on the possibility and methods to know reality beyond delusion; such peculiar knowledge is explicitly defined as enlightenment. Thus, for Buddhism, semiotics is directly relevant to salvation; this is a key point that is often ignored even by Buddhologists. This book discusses in depth the main elements of Buddhist semiotics as based primarily on original Japanese pre-modern sources. It is a crucial publication in the fields of semiotics and religious studies.

Author : Dr Youxuan Wang,Wang Youxuan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136845734

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Buddhism and Deconstruction by Dr Youxuan Wang,Wang Youxuan Pdf

This is a semiotic study of a corpus of texts that Kumârajîva (344-413 CE), Paramârtha (499~569 CE) and Xuanzang (599~664 CE) transmitted from India to China, featuring a critical reading of the Dazhidu Lun (T1509, Mahâ-Prajñâpâramitâ-upadeúa-Úâstra), San Wuxing Lun (T1617, Try-asvabhâva-prakara.na), and Guangbai Lun (T1571, Catu.húataka-úâstra-kârika). Focusing its attention on the Mahâyâna Buddhist notion of samatâ, it identifies a Buddhist semiotics which anticipates Derrida's invocation of the notion of the Same in his deconstruction of binary oppositions.

Author : Youxuan Wang
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 0700713867

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Buddhism and Deconstruction by Youxuan Wang Pdf

This is a semiotic study of a corpus of texts that Kumârajîva (344-413 CE), Paramârtha (499 569 CE) and Xuanzang (599 664 CE) transmitted from India to China, featuring a critical reading of the Dazhidu Lun (T1509, Mahâ-Prajñâpâramitâ-upadeúa-Úâstra), San Wuxing Lun (T1617, Try-asvabhâva-prakara.na), and Guangbai Lun (T1571, Catu.húataka-úâstra-kârika). Focusing its attention on the Mahâyâna Buddhist notion of samatâ, it identifies a Buddhist semiotics which anticipates Derrida's invocation of the notion of the Same in his deconstruction of binary oppositions.

Author : Manel Herat
Publisher : Springer
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-11
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783319674131

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Buddhism and Linguistics by Manel Herat Pdf

This edited collection brings linguistics into contact with a millennia of works by Buddhist scholars. Examining the Buddhist contemplative tradition and its extensive writings from an interdisciplinary perspective, the authors bridge the gap between such customs and human language. To do so, they provide chapters on linguistics, history, religious studies, philosophy and semiotics. Uniting scholars from three different continents and from many disciplines and institutions, this innovative and unique book is sure to appeal to anyone interested in Buddhist traditions and linguistics.

Author : Wang Youxuan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138862509

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Buddhism and Deconstruction by Wang Youxuan Pdf

This is a semiotic study of a corpus of texts that Kumârajîva (344-413 CE), Paramârtha (499~569 CE) and Xuanzang (599~664 CE) transmitted from India to China, featuring a critical reading of the Dazhidu Lun (T1509, Mahâ-Prajñâpâramitâ-upadeúa-Úâstra), San Wuxing Lun (T1617, Try-asvabhâva-prakara.na), and Guangbai Lun (T1571, Catu.húataka-úâstra-kârika). Focusing its attention on the Mahâyâna Buddhist notion of samatâ, it identifies a Buddhist semiotics which anticipates Derrida's invocation of the notion of the Same in his deconstruction of binary oppositions.

Author : Marc Mehu
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 147250996X

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Semiotics of Smiling by Marc Mehu Pdf

Oneof the first attempts ever to present in a systematic way a non-westernsemiotic system. This book looks at Japanese esoteric Buddhism and is basedaround original texts, informed by explicit and rigorous semiotic categories. .Semiotic concerns are deeply ingrained in the Buddhist intellectual andreligious discourse, beginning with the idea that the world is not what itappears to be, which calls for a more accurate understanding of the self andreality. This in turn results in sustained discussions on the status oflanguage and representations, and on the possibility and methods to knowreality beyond delusion; such peculiar knowledge is explicitly defined asenlightenment. Thus, for Buddhism, semiotics is directly relevant to salvation;this is a key point that is often ignored even by Buddhologists. This bookdiscusses in depth the main elements of Buddhist semiotics as based primarilyon original Japanese pre-modern sources. It is a crucial publication in thefields of semiotics and religious studies.

Author : Irene Portis Winner,Jean Umiker-Sebeok
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110823134

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Semiotics of Culture by Irene Portis Winner,Jean Umiker-Sebeok Pdf

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Author : Harjeet Singh Gill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Buddhist logic
ISBN : UOM:39015061102326

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Signification in Language and Culture by Harjeet Singh Gill Pdf

Contributed articles presented during the International Symposium on Signification in Buddhist and French Traditions held at Indian Institute of Advanced Study in Sept. 2001.

Author : Jenny Ponzo,Robert A. Yelle,Massimo Leone
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110690354

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Mediation and Immediacy by Jenny Ponzo,Robert A. Yelle,Massimo Leone Pdf

Religion, like any other domain of culture, is mediated through symbolic forms and communicative behaviors, which allow the coordination of group conduct in ritual and the representation of the divine or of tradition as an intersubjective reality. While many traditions hold out the promise of immediate access to the divine, or to some transcendent dimension of experience, such promises depend for their realization as well on the possibility of mediation, which is necessarily conducted through channels of communication and exchange, such as prayers or sacrifices. An understanding of such modes of semiosis is therefore necessary even and especially when mediation is denied by a tradition in the name of the 'ineffability" of the deity or of mystical experience. This volume models and promotes an interdisciplinary dialogue and cross-cultural perspective on these issues by asking prominent semioticians, historians of religion and of art, linguists, sociologists of religion, and philosophers of law to reflect from a semiotic perspective on the topic of mediation and immediacy in religious traditions.

Author : Harjeet Singh Gill
Publisher : Virago Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015055917085

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Signification in Buddhist and French Traditions by Harjeet Singh Gill Pdf

Author : Rajnish Kumar Mishra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025377727

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Buddhist Theory of Meaning and Literary Analysis by Rajnish Kumar Mishra Pdf

This Book Offers A Fresh Exposition Of The Buddhist Theory Of Meaning (Apohavada) Against The Backdrop Of Indian Linguistic Thought And Shows How This Theory Is Positioned Vis-A-Vis Current Issues And Assumptions In Language. Consists A Very Useful Glossary.

Author : Christian K. Wedemeyer
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231162418

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Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism by Christian K. Wedemeyer Pdf

Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism fundamentally rethinks the nature of the transgressive theories and practices of the Buddhist Tantric traditions, challenging the notion that the Tantras were “marginal” or primitive and situating them instead—both ideologically and institutionally—within larger trends in mainstream Buddhist and Indian culture. Critically surveying prior scholarship, Wedemeyer exposes the fallacies of attributing Tantric transgression to either the passions of lusty monks, primitive tribal rites, or slavish imitation of Saiva traditions. Through comparative analysis of modern historical narratives—that depict Tantrism as a degenerate form of Buddhism, a primal religious undercurrent, or medieval ritualism—he likewise demonstrates these to be stock patterns in the European historical imagination. Through close analysis of primary sources, Wedemeyer reveals the lived world of Tantric Buddhism as largely continuous with the Indian religious mainstream and deploys contemporary methods of semiotic and structural analysis to make sense of its seemingly repellent and immoral injunctions. Innovative, semiological readings of the influential Guhyasamaja Tantra underscore the text’s overriding concern with purity, pollution, and transcendent insight—issues shared by all Indic religions—and a large-scale, quantitative study of Tantric literature shows its radical antinomianism to be a highly managed ritual observance restricted to a sacerdotal elite. These insights into Tantric scripture and ritual clarify the continuities between South Asian Tantrism and broader currents in Indian religion, illustrating how thoroughly these “radical” communities were integrated into the intellectual, institutional, and social structures of South Asian Buddhism.

Author : Richard K. Payne,Fabio Rambelli
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781350228351

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Buddhism under Capitalism by Richard K. Payne,Fabio Rambelli Pdf

This book argues that Buddhism has spread due to globalized capitalism, and explores how capitalism is also impacting Buddhists and Buddhism today. Edited by two leading scholars in Buddhist studies, the book examines how capitalism and neo-liberalism have shaped global perceptions of Buddhism, as well as specific local practices and attitudes. It examines the institutional practices that sustained the spread of Buddhism for two and a half millennia, and the adaptation of Buddhist institutions in contemporary, global economic systems-particularly in Europe and the United States over the last century and half. These innovative essays on the interfaces between Buddhism and capitalism will prompt readers to rethink the connection between Buddhism and secular society. Case studies include digital capitalism, tourism, and monasticism, and are drawn from the USA, Tibet, China, Japan, and Thailand.

Author : Louis Hébert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000760590

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An Introduction to Applied Semiotics by Louis Hébert Pdf

An Introduction to Applied Semiotics presents nineteen semiotics tools for text and image analysis. Covering a variety of different schools and approaches, together with the author’s own original approach, this is a full and synthetic introduction to semiotics. This book presents general tools that can be used with any semiotic product. Drawing on the work of Fontanille, Genette, Greimas, Hébert, Jakobson, Peirce, Rastier and Zilberberg, the tools deal with the analysis of themes and action, true and false, positive and negative, rhythm narration and other elements. The application of each tool is illustrated with analyses of a wide range of texts and images, from well-known or distinctive literary texts, philosophical or religious texts or images, paintings, advertising and everyday signs and symbols. Each chapter has the same structure – summary, theory and application, making it ideal for course use. Covering both visual and textual objects, this is a key text for all courses in semiotics and textual analysis within linguistics, communication studies, literary theory, design, marketing and related areas.