Kukai's Esoteric Interpretation of the Huayan Doctrine

A Scientific Interpretation of the Tridosha Doctrine of Humorology

This article attempts to trace the origin of the systems concerned as cosmology and humorology. The three elements Earth, Water and Fire formulated as the first cosmology are essential to human lives which are interpreted scientifically here.

Outlines of a Pedagogical Interpretation of Nāgārjuna’s Two Truths Doctrine

This paper proposes an interpretation of Nāgārjuna’s doctrine of the two truths that considers saṃvṛti and paramārtha-satya two visions of reality on which the Buddhas, for soteriological and pedagogical reasons, build teachings of two types: respectively in agreement with (for example, the teaching of the Four Noble Truths) or in contrast to (for example, the teaching of emptiness) the categor...

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the esoteric interpretation of sheikhs’ words in hojwiri’s kashf al-mahjoub

kashf al-mahjoub is the first persian independent mystical text, written by abu al-hasan ali bin osman al-jolabi al-hojwiri al-qaznavi which contains valuable information about different subjects of sufism. since one of the effective methods on which one can understand a sufi’s viewpoints and can figure out his ideology and even his anagogic and mystical psychology is to analyze his esoteric in...

Theuth Versus Thamus: The Esoteric Plato Revisited

The distinction between esoteric and exoteric readings of Plato will be revisited in this article with respect to two esoteric approaches: the German Tübingen School and the American Straussians (i.e., those interpreters who have been inspired by the work of Leo Strauss). There appears to be a joint motivation for these two approaches, namely, the critique of writing in the dialogue Phaedrus an...