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Interpretation and Mystical Experience
Author Smart, Ninian (著)
Source Religious Studies
Volumev.1 n.1
Date1965.10
Pages75 - 87
PublisherCambridge University Press
Publisher Url https://www.cambridge.org/
LocationCambridge, UK [劍橋, 英國]
Content type期刊論文=Journal Article
Language英文=English
AbstractProfessor R. C. Zaehner's distinction between panenhenic, monistic and theistic mysticism will be examined. It will be argued that there is no necessary reason to suppose that the latter two types involve different sorts of experience: the difference lies rather in the way the experience is interpreted. Likewise it will be argued that the Theravādin experience of nirvana, which is interpreted neither in a monistic nor in a theistic sense, may well be identical substantially with the foregoing two types. All this raises important methodological problems, in relation to the contrast between experience and interpretation. The fact that mysticism is substantially the same in different cultures and religions does not, however, entail that there is a ‘perennial philosophy’ common to mystics. Their doctrines are determined partly by factors other than mystical experience itself.
ISSN00344125 (P); 1469901X (E)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1017/S0034412500002341
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