An Anthropological Outline of the Sutta Nipāta: The Contemplative Experience in Early Buddhist Poetry [PDF]
By examining the Sutta Nipāta, considered one of the collections containing the oldest texts of the Pāli canon, this study aims to reconstruct social, historical, and anthropological aspects of archaic Buddhist doctrine at the time of its ...
Federico Divino, Divino, Federico
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En la historia de la salvación, los sentidos del cuerpo están involucrados, pero no en la misma medida. En especial, lo están aquellos considerados “más puros” porque no tienen necesidad de contacto directo con la materia para percibir: la vista y el ...
Díez, Francisco
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Reaching the End of the World: An Anthropological Reading of Early Buddhist Medicine and Ascetic Practices [PDF]
This article aims to analyze the ideas of health and illness in ancient Buddhism, making use of the theoretical tools of medical anthropology and historical–philological inquiry.
Federico Divino, Divino, Federico
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Dualism and Psychosemantics: Holography and Pansematism in Early Buddhist Philosophy [PDF]
In the Indian philosophical debate, the relationship between the structure of knowledge and external reality has been a persistent issue. This debate has been particularly prominent in Buddhism, as evidenced by the earliest Buddhist attestations in the ...
DIVINO, Federico, Federico DIVINO
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Mindful Apocalypse: Contemplative Anthropology Investigating Experiences of World-Loss in Deep Meditation [PDF]
his article investigates the challenge of personal crisis during deep meditation, as observed in an ethnographic inquiry into mindfulness and traditional contemplative practices.
Federico Divino, Divino, Federico
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This article is the result of a research dedicated to the analysis of the term loka (“world”) in the Pāli canon. This work consists mainly of a translation and analysis of the Pāli suttas concerning loka and related terms.
Federico Divino, Divino, Federico
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Elements of the Buddhist Medical System [PDF]
This article aims to explore the anthropological foundations of early Buddhist medical thought by conducting a comprehensive analysis of Pāli texts and their relationship to the development of Indian traditional medicine, such as Āyurveda.
Federico Divino, Divino, Federico
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Metaphor, Metamorphosis, Mindfulness: Social change through the dispositive of “Mental Presence” = Metafora, Metamorfosi, Mindfulness: il cambiento sociale attraverso il dispositivo della “Presenza mentale” [PDF]
The aim of this article is to define a new anthropological theory of social change through the case-study of mindfulness as instance of cultural transformation and sign of social change.
Divino, Federico
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Appearance and Momentariness: the Nature of Being between Nāgārjuna, the Sarvāstivādins and Neo-Parmenidism [PDF]
In this article I will try to demonstrate the existence of points in common between the eternalist instances of Parmenidean philosophy and the Buddhist formulations made by some parts of the Abhidhamma, Nāgārjuna, and the Sarvāstivādins.
DIVINO, Federico
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La denominada “doctrina de la indiferencia de la naturaleza o esencia” del filósofo Avicena tuvo una profunda influencia en gran parte de los autores de la escolástica de los siglos XIII y XIV, en parte, en el desarrollo del célebre problema de los ...
Julio A. Castelló Dubrá
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