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Title |
Title of document |
Altered States and the Origins of the Mahāyāna - Setting Out on the Great Way |
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Creator |
Author's name, affiliation, country |
Douglas Osto; Massey University; New Zealand |
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Subject |
Discipline(s) |
Buddhism |
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Keyword(s) |
Early Mahāyāna Buddhism; East Asian religions; Buddhist Tantra; Vajrayana; historical Buddhism |
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Subject |
Subject classification |
Early Mahāyāna Buddhism |
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Description |
Abstract |
This chapter argues that literary accounts of visions in some Mahāyāna sources (often referred to as samādhis) possess characteristics that are strikingly similar to reports of actually visionary experiences that individuals have undergone while their psychologies and physiologies were profoundly altered in some way. Moreover, some of the methods used to induce actual visions also parallel methods recommended or described in some Mahāyāna sūtras. These parallels are strong enough to suggest that visionary altered states of consciousness formed an experiential basis for the emergence of new Mahāyāna sūtras, which contributed to the imaginative restructuring of Buddhist cosmology found within Indian Mahāyāna Buddhism.
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Publisher |
Organizing agency, location |
Equinox Publishing Ltd |
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Date |
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30-Jun-2018 |
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Peer-reviewed Article |
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Format |
File format |
PDF |
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Identifier |
Uniform Resource Identifier |
https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/34259 |
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Identifier |
Digital Object Identifier |
10.1558/equinox.34259 |
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Source |
Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) |
Equinox eBooks Publishing; Setting Out on the Great Way |
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Language |
English=en |
en |
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Rights |
Copyright and permissions |
Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |