Transition of Interpretation about Shohomyodo in Medieval Shingon Esoteric Buddhism

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1 Fabio Rambelli

So far we have discussed the first two types of the esoteric practices on signs (gomitsu), i.e., the recitation and memorization of mantric formulae and the study and writing of shittan graphs. These two kinds of practices, based on the manipulation of the phonetic and graphic signifiers of esoteric signs, are already endowed with salvational power; however, they also are the introduction to th...

Fabio Rambelli Lecture 6 The Status of the Mind in

Mind is an extremely complex and important subject in Buddhism in general and in esoteric Buddhism in particular. It is partly due to the fact that Buddhism envisions liberation as based on the acquisition of a special wisdom, that is, a different cognitive approach toward reality. Such new cognitive approach is called in the Japanese tradition satori or kakugo, usually rendered in English as “...

What Buddhism Taught Cognitive Science about Self, Mind and Brain

In the past twenty years, new optimism about the relevance of Buddhism to cognitive science has been expressed by a number of established researchers. In this article I ask what are the conceptual roots of this optimism, and which forms of development it inspired, with particular focus on selfhood, embodiment and meditation. The latter contains three distinct points of contact that are also rev...

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...