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Figure 2. Bhavacakra, painting on cloth; Nepal, nineteenth to twentieth century. From Massimiliano Alessandro Polichetti’s article The Sorrowful Fates of Rebirth: Ippolito Desideri Encounters Tibetan Sacred Art.
“[T]he bhavacakra (a kind of mental map of the concepts placed at the basis of Buddhist psycho-cosmology, made graphic with small images set in place in a circular manner that represents the “wheel of rebirths”) is set against the “world of becoming,” samsāra devoured by forgetfulness, represented by Yama, the god of the dead in Buddhist cosmology, who holds all within his jowls as a sign of immanent sorrow.”
From the Editors’ Introduction:
October 14–15, 2017, the city of Pistoia in Tuscany hosted an international symposium to honor the legacy of Fr. Ippolito Desideri (1684–1733), the first Jesuit missionary to Tibet who engaged in sustained interreligious dialogue with local Buddhists and whose extraordinary command of the local language even enabled him to author Christian theological treatises in Classical Tibetan.
ARTICLES FROM THIS VOLUME:
Ippolito Desideri and His Muslim Guides in the Buddhist Kingdom of Ladakh
by John Bray
Ippolito Desideri: Anthropologist of Modernity
by Nicola Gasbarro
Gleanings from Desideri’s Account Book 1: New Light on Some Episodes of His Life in Tibet
by Michael J. Sweet
Seeing a Friend in the Stranger and the Stranger in the Friend: The Practice of Christian Hospitality through Interreligious Dialogue and Solidarity
by Karen B. Enriquez
Images of Mind, Images of God: Mirror as Metaphor in Chinese Buddhism and Early Mysticism
by Jinai Fan
Emptiness, Bodhisattvas, and Meister Eckhart
by Peter Feldmeier
Grace, Symbol, and Liturgy: Constructing the Theological Anthropology of Nichiren Daishonin
by Ralph H. Craig III
Pāli Buddhist and Christian Analyses of Gender
by Carol S. Anderson and Rebecca J. Manring
Mindfulness Meditation as a Remedy to “White Ignorance” and Its Consequences
by Wioleta Polinska
…plus 17 more articles, a News and Views section, and 8 Book Reviews.
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Buddhist-Christian Studies
Volume 38
2018
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