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Qu Es El Budismo? / What Is Buddhism?
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El budismo ocupa un lugar central en el conjunto de la obra de Borges. La percepcin del cosmos como un laberinto o una paradoja, la negacin del Yo, el cuestionamiento a la concepcin occidental del tiempo y la singular nocin de que el mundo es una ficcin y la realidad un sueo, entre otras ideas, cruzan los ensayos, cuentos y poemas del autor desde sus textos ms tempranos y son la particular reformulacin con fines literarios de algunos de los nodos centrales de esta doctrina. Escrito a partir de una serie de conferencias y publicado por primera vez en 1976, en colaboracin con Alicia Jurado, Qu es el budismo es un fascinante recorrido a travs de uno de los cultos ms conocidos y ms tergiversados del mundo desde los orgenes histricos del Buddha hasta las teoras de la reencarnacin y una obra indispensable para completar el sentido del universo borgeano. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION "Claiming the universe is finite is heresy, as it is claiming the universe is infinite; claiming it is not one or the other is also heretic." Buddhism is front and center in Borges' collective works. The perception of cosmos as a labyrinth or a paradox, the denying of the self, questioning the Western conception of time, and the singular notion that the world is fiction and reality a dream, among other ideas, cross the author's essays, short stories, and poems since his earliest works, and they are a particular reformulation, with literary purposes, of some of the central nodes of this doctrine. Written from a series of lectures and first published in 1976, in collaboration with Alicia Jurado, What Is Buddhism? is a fascinating journey through one of the best-known and most-misinterpreted religions in the world, from Buddha's historical origins, to the theories of reincarnation. This is an essential book to complement the meaning of the Borgesian universe.
El budismo ocupa un lugar central en el conjunto de la obra de Borges. La percepcin del cosmos como un laberinto o una paradoja, la negacin del Yo, el cuestionamiento a la concepcin occidental del tiempo y la singular nocin de que el mundo es una ficcin y la realidad un sueo, entre otras ideas, cruzan los ensayos, cuentos y poemas del autor desde sus textos ms tempranos y son la particular reformulacin con fines literarios de algunos de los nodos centrales de esta doctrina. Escrito a partir de una serie de conferencias y publicado por primera vez en 1976, en colaboracin con Alicia Jurado, Qu es el budismo es un fascinante recorrido a travs de uno de los cultos ms conocidos y ms tergiversados del mundo desde los orgenes histricos del Buddha hasta las teoras de la reencarnacin y una obra indispensable para completar el sentido del universo borgeano. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION "Claiming the universe is finite is heresy, as it is claiming the universe is infinite; claiming it is not one or the other is also heretic." Buddhism is front and center in Borges' collective works. The perception of cosmos as a labyrinth or a paradox, the denying of the self, questioning the Western conception of time, and the singular notion that the world is fiction and reality a dream, among other ideas, cross the author's essays, short stories, and poems since his earliest works, and they are a particular reformulation, with literary purposes, of some of the central nodes of this doctrine. Written from a series of lectures and first published in 1976, in collaboration with Alicia Jurado, What Is Buddhism? is a fascinating journey through one of the best-known and most-misinterpreted religions in the world, from Buddha's historical origins, to the theories of reincarnation. This is an essential book to complement the meaning of the Borgesian universe.
Paperback
$19.95