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AUTUMN 2012 |
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Glenn Wallis X-BUDDHISTIC HALLUCINATION: MEDITATION, IDEOLOGY, NIHILISM
X-buddhistic Hallucination
consists of two parts. The aim of part one, “Speculative Non-Buddhism,”
is to present a new way of looking at Buddhism. Part two, “Meditation
as Organon of Dissolution,” applies this critical theory toward the
analysis of a classical Buddhist meditation text. The purpose of the
theory that the author calls ‘speculative non-buddhism,’ however, is
not to move cumbersomely through the morass of the Buddhist canon
making proclamations apropos of this or that ancient doctrine. Wallis’s
ambition is both more limited and farther reaching than that. His
theory is concerned with western cultural criticism in the present. As
such, it is being designed with three primary functions in mind: (i) to
uncover Buddhism’s syntactical structure (unacknowledged even
by—especially by—Buddhists themselves); (ii) to serve as a means of
inquiry into the sense and viability of Buddhist propositions; and
(iii) to operate as a check on the tendency of all contemporary
formulations of Buddhism—whether of the traditional, religious,
progressive or secular variety—toward ideological excess. |
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AUTUMN 2012 |
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ANTHONY W. JOHNSON & JYRI VAAHTERA (EDS.):
FIVE RESTORATION PLAYS FROM THE KING'S SCHOOL, CANTERBURY |