Otto’s Theory of Religious Experience as Encounter with the Numinous and Its Application to Buddhism
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چکیده
Rudolf Otto (1869-1937) greatly contributed to the discussion of religious feeling and knowledge in attempting to characterize the experience of the “holy” as disclosed and distinctive in all religions. This article will first analyze his fundamental theory of the “numinous” experience, and then examine the notion of the “numen,” the object and source of the numinous experience, which he claims to be universal. I shall then apply this examination to Buddhism in order to see if Otto’s conception of the numinous experience is capable of universal generalization.
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