Search Results for transcendence

... has an independent or unique significance. To Buddhists, however, and especially for the adherents of the Lesser Vehicle (Nikaya or Theravada) sects that flourished during that era, seeing had an extraordinary or transcendent significance. When taken as the objects of such visual perception, Buddhist...

...—physical and psychological preparedness, affective response to things, transcendent flight of the mind, and the transformation of conception-image into language (see chap. 2) — I found three distinct theory types emerged: a transcendent mind-centered theory focused on the third phase, a yi- centered...

... the inculcation of secular humanity as an alternative to religious transcendence. Meanwhile, Liu underscored the transcendence of literatures of sin to stimulate an inner morality through which to excise all secular political commands from human interiority. Whereas Li prioritized a realistic ethical...

... to transcend political and cultural boundaries. Liu's three distinct roles at three different stages of life—a Chinese scholar, an exile, a cosmopolitan—exemplify a fluctuating spiritual odyssey of a Chinese intellectual whose profoundly multifarious oeuvre is intertwined with his quest for personal freedom...

..., this essay contends that it has been necessary for emerging scholarship on race to transcend this analogy in order to confront the persistence of anti-Black racism and contemporary environmental crisis. Wolfe's ethical claim for species critique in the humanities has been significant in articulating new...

... him to undertake the third route, as he attempted to transcend binary oppositions, which ultimately led to his downfall in the New China. The case of Zhang Dongsun, who exemplifies a group of liberal Chinese intellectuals, not only indicates the predicament of the discourse of Thirdspace in modern...

... that deals with the problem of the incommensurability of the material conditions of languages to one of translation as transcending such incommensurability. In fact, the poem is here to be considered as both an original and a translation at the same time. Primary questions include: Where does this poem begin...

...Chia-Ju Chang Abstract The article considers what role “meaning” plays in shaping the unintended suffering caused by human aspirations. The thing we call meaning in “the secular age” has replaced the transcendent to become the new religion we espouse. We fight for abstract ideas, principles...

... . At the same time, Wang Wei's poetry, steeped in Chan Buddhism, is fully in accord with Zong Bing's “Preface” on the level of practical composition. Wang Changling's ingress from tranquil contemplation of the object-inscape to a transcendent dimension offers a perfect theoretical recapitulation of Wang Wei's...

... on the hillside / Piles and piles of rocks in the valley; / Between heaven and earth lives man / Like a sojourner on a long journey.” 古文格高,一句見意,則“股肱良哉”是也。 其次兩句見意,則「關關雎鳩,在河之洲」是也。 其次古詩,四句見意,則「青青陵上柏,磊磊澗中石,人生天地間,忽如遠行客」是也。( WJMFL , 3:1299) Here Wang focuses on the transition from transcendent contemplation...

... transcendent mental activity to literary composition. The establishment of yi- centered discourse in the Ming-Qing period is immensely significant because it successfully infuses transcendent spirit-thinking, along with the interaction between emotions, scenery, and objects it incites, into every step...

...: mental and psychological preparedness, emotional response to the outer world, the transcendent flight of the creative mind that culminates in the formation of “conception-image,” and finally the translation of that conception-image into a work of language. Given this, it seems most productive to arrange...

...Zong-qi Cai The “establishing yi” ( liyi 立意) of the opening sentence may seem synonymous with Wang Changling's “ zuoyi 作意, zhiyi 置意” (see §§76–77, 85), but it is fundamentally different. While Wang's phrases speak to the Buddhist transcendent state of mind that engenders inscape, Huang's...

... scenes.” In other words, they reveal the true reality ( shixiang 實相) behind the phenomenal world. This description of Buddhism's penetrating, transcendent power strikes me as similar, almost identical, to Wang Changling's description of “inscape of physical things” (see §74), but there is an important...

... archaism, but their ideas about poetic emotion are more aligned with the Archaists than with Anti-Archaists like Xu Wei and Li Zhi. Like Archaists they advocate the aestheticization of qing , but they add a transcendent dimension by exalting the expression of one's “inborn nature and spirit” ( xingling 性...

... suggests a quest for the utter transcendence of literature through soul searching in literary works. Liu's comparison of Lu Xun's devotion to a “conversion” ( huixin 回心) with Dostoyevsky's religious beliefs within literary works helps to bring out attention to an individual's relationship with the inner...

... as an active narrative device. It provides reference points that enable readers to anchor meanings within the apparent narrative and, at the same time, overturn the simple binary opposition between the surface and in-depth levels of a text. The time-space perspective encourages a transcendent reading...

... for a transcendent textual afterlife that Walter Benjamin imagines in his “The Translator's Task,” but instead asserts that “each [translation] remains less a transcendent entry into the literary canon and more a new, often selective interpretation” (31). Rather than evaluating these translations based...

..., this everyday smog life espoused by ordinary people exhibits an indifferent, transcendent life attitude or philosophy at odds with its contemporaneous ethos in this era of toxic environment. Unlike the smog art group, which consists mainly of middle-class, educated, and scientifically informed artists dedicated...

... and popular superstition is beyond dispute. Wang Hui however, has noted a streak of sympathy and appreciation in Lu Xun's stance toward superstition and religion. In “superstition” Lu Xun sees an enduring metaphysical need and a desire among ordinary Chinese to transcend the limits of everyday life and work...