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Sus

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Re: Harvard Goes To The Himalayas – Monks With....

Metabletics In the Light of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism

http://www.janushead.org/10-2/Pope.pdf

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Alan Pope
University of West Georgia

Metabletics and Indo-Tibetan Buddhism are quasi-phenomenological traditions which examine psychological life in diametrically opposed ways. Metabletics examines historical-cultural phenom
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ena, placing its focus on the world, while Buddhism examines the mind and its workings, placing its focus inward. Although both traditions conclude that there is ultimately no separation between inner and outer, their different motivations and methods reveal varying understandings of the nature of reality. This article begins with an examination of how each approach would account for a handprint embedded in stone in a cave wall in Nepal; this image provides an avenue for articulating the underlying philosophies of each.