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Showing 1 to 20 of 85 for “"emptiness"”.
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Ex Nihilo : emptiness and art
… is the following; firstly, that the concept of emptiness in Buddhism is not nihilism, and this holds true for the system that I describe; it is my position that much art is empty (in a way) and necessarily so. Secondly, that both systems (though not exclusively), are ways of relating, rather …
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Exploring Emptiness: Beckett and Buddhism via Arthur Schopenhauer
… used to analyse key Beckettian themes, such as emptiness and the ‘veil of Maya’, which is a Vedic philosophical concept. ‘Maya’ means illusion, and Schopenhauer’s phrase ‘veil of Maya’ refers to a mask that covers the reality of the world.<br/><br/>In Beckett’s work, ‘veil of Maya’ signifies …
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Programmed emptiness : research infrastructure on the Tibetan plateau
The recent completion of a rail line running from central China to Lhasa in the Tibet Autonomous Region has brought attention not only to China's Architecture and Urbanism questionable occupation of Tibet, but also to the face that modernization in the TAR has adopted and the accompanying …
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Nihilism and emptiness: Nishitani's encounter with Nietzsche
… the ‘transhistorical’ grounds of historicity in emptiness (śūnyatā), as outlined in the later chapters of Religion and Nothingness.
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The Pervasive Emptiness: Acedia, Modernity, and the Boredom of Secularity
… to the sickness unto death and to the despair/emptiness that comes from living a life that is empty of both faith and love, and therefore, devoid of meaning. People are fearful of boredom, and approach it either by seeking diversion, or enduring it, because the actual cure is untenable. The …
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GESTURES TOWARDS EMPTINESS: AN EXPLORATION OF RITUAL WITH REFERENCE TO BUDDHIST TRADITION AND INNOVATION
This thesis is a cross-relational enquiry into the nature of ritual as the subject of arts-based research. It can be described as ritual-led; or as an artist's manifestation of ritual. The core of the submission consists in an exhibition, comprising 30 pieces of framed, wall-hung artwork; 3 …
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Architectural Emptiness: On a reinterpretation of the architectural implications of Heidegger's concept of dwelling.
… discover that space has a particular kind of emptiness that allows for poetic experience. Ways of building that manifest this emptiness can be considered building for dwelling. <br/><br/>The focus on poetic dwelling unravels previous architectural interpretations of Heidegger’s concept of …
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The project of emptiness Sovereignty, the weaponization of space and architecture in the Bosnian krajina
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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The trauma aesthetic: (re)mediating absence, emptiness and nation in post-9/11 American film and literature
… are used to (re)mediate the sense of absence and emptiness integral to the experience of 9/11 and the sense of vulnerability which it inflicted upon American national identity. These include: falling, timelessness, placelessness and the absent body. By drawing on and adapting existing trauma …
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Sharp edges of the horizon: a fissure between “openness” and “emptiness” on the Tempelhofer Feld in Berlin
The former fields and runways of the Tempelhof Airport in Berlin, Germany, have layered histories. The nearly two-square-mile area served as a late nineteenth-century agricultural field, fair ground, twentieth-century German military base, concentration camp, US military base, and airport, before …
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To Know a Buddha: A Tibetan Contemplative History and Its Implications for Religious Studies
… introduction, critique, and re-framing of other-emptiness (gzhan-stong) by Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen (1292–1361), Tsongkhapa Lobsang Drakpa (1357–1419), and Jamgon Kongtrul (1813-1899) respectively. Each author's writings on emptiness were deeply informed by his own contemplative and visionary …
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Buddhist Philosophy and the Ideals of Environmentalism
… coincide in equating ultimate reality with ‘emptiness,’ and propose knowledge of this reality as a final soteriological purpose. Emptiness is generally said to be ineffable, and to involve the negation of all views. An important question is how to reconcile environmentalism with the …
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Full of empty promises? Exploring what drug use achieves for the individual
… the narratives made reference to experiences of emptiness which did not initially appear to be addressed by the theory of self-medication. A cross-disciplinary exploration of what had been written of such experiences of emptiness revealed two distinct types: one which could be understood as …
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Buddhist Śūnyatā and Christian Apophaticism : A Typology of Negativity with Special Reference to Derridean Khôra and Différance
… a typology <br/>of negativity, the teaching of emptiness, or śūnyatā, is examined in various traditions to have a better understanding of how it informs Buddhism; in a similar way, apophatic theology is examined in Christianity in order to show how it informs Christian thought. What binds these …
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The Sense In Which All Things Move: Concepts of Meaning and World in Heidegger and Zhuangzi 莊子
… difficult claims is that “the world emerges from emptiness,” such that something (or indeed everything) comes from nothing. Interpreters generally avoid this logical impasse by suggesting, for instance, that the emptiness or nothingness is not really nothing, but instead refers to a …
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Improved Symbolic Model Checking of Real-Time Systems
… problems are reachability analysis and emptiness checking. In the second part of the thesis, we aim to improve the current state-of-the-art algorithms by using the Lower Upper (LU) simulation relation. We prove that the simulation relation preserves not only the reachability but also the …
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Dancing brush: an exploration of Taoist aesthetics
… arts as the new media art form, “unity of emptiness and fullness” as the animation principle, and “subtraction aesthetics” as the principle of creativity. I propose Dancing Brush video installation as a presentation of “aesthetics of wandering contemplation”. The work suggests a feature of …
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MORE COMPLEX THAN WASTELAND REPARATIVE SITE HISTORY ALONG THE BOSTON-REVERE BORDER
… the use of spatial and temporal metaphor. The emptiness of the site allows for, even requires, large-scale interventions that “solve” the “problem” posed by emptiness. I read these interventions in the context of solutionism, a framework that inherits Enlightenment-era ideas of human dominance …
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