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Buddhist Modernism and the Rhetoric of Meditative Experience

In: Numen
Author:
Robert Sharf
Robert Sharf The University of Michigan Department of Asian Languages and Cultures 3070 Frieze Building Ann Arbor MI 48109, USA

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Online Publication Date:
01 Jan 1995
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Abstract

The category “experience” has played a cardinal role in modern studies of buddhism. Few scholars seem to question the notion that Buddhist monastic practice, particularly meditation, is intended first and foremost to inculcate specific religious or “mystical” experiences in the minds of practitioners. Accordingly, a wide variety of Buddhist technical terms pertaining to the “stages on the path” are subject to a phenomenological hermeneutic—they are interpreted as if they designated discrete “states of consciousness” experienced by historical individuals in the course of their meditative practice.

Title:
Buddhist Modernism and the Rhetoric of Meditative Experience
Article Type:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/1568527952598549
Language:
English
Pages:
228–283
In:
Numen
In:
Volume 42: Issue 3
Publisher:
Brill
E-ISSN:
1568-5276
Print ISSN:
0029-5973
Subjects:
History of Religion, Religious Studies, Comparative Religion & Religious Studies, General, History

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