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SUMMARY:Guest Lecture: Devotion’s Metaphors: Longchenpa’s Homage to Sa
 mantabhadra in A Treasure Trove of Scriptural Transmissions
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DESCRIPTION:Gastvortrag von Renée L. Ford\, PhD\, Aarhus University\, Dä
 nemark\n“Heart Openings Project” (ERC starting grant)\n\nThe presentat
 ion focuses on Longchen Rabjam’s (1308–1364) homage to Buddha Samantab
 hadra in his Treasure Trove of Scriptural Transmission\, a commentary on h
 is root text Treasury of Basic Space. Renée Ford will show how the metaph
 ors used within this verse and other related acts of homage may be express
 ions of experience for Longchenpa and for others who engage in contemplati
 ve practices that incorporate devotion.\n\nFirstly\, the lecturer will exp
 lain how Longchenpa’s devotion to Samantabhadra is reflexive\, due to hi
 s “view” of Dzogchen. This reflexivity incorporates the metaphors used
  to express the ultimate view in the homage. Secondly\, she explores the r
 elationship of “compassion responsiveness” (thugs rje) in the triad es
 sence responsiveness\, nature responsiveness\, and compassion responsivene
 ss (ngo bo\, rang bzhin\, thugs rje) found throughout Dzogchen and Mahāmu
 drā.\n\nRenée Ford concludes by reading Longchenpa’s homage alongside 
 a few specific microphenomenology interviews\, which focus on very short m
 oments of experience of contemporary practitioners “feeling the presence
  of their teachers.” The rigorous analysis procedure of these interviews
  allows for an interviewer to interrogate a moment of experience\, and all
 owing the interviewee to express concrete dimensions of that experience.\n
 \nIn this presention\, the lecturer hopes to add to the conversation that 
 Jan-Ulrich Sobisch began in Do you speak Mahāmudrā? by discussing how me
 taphors allow for the “inexpressible” to become tangible and how they 
 are experienced in meditation (Sobisch\, p. 46). In this way\, Longchenpa
 ’s homage\, and related texts to be examined in future\, may reveal simi
 lar structures and patterns to those in these contemporary interviews.  
   \n\n 
LOCATION:CERES-Palais\, Raum "Ruhrpott" (4.13)
URL:https://ceres.rub.de/de/events/guest-lecture-sfb-1475-04122023/
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