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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:Guest Lecture by Renée L. Ford\, PhD\, Aarhus University\, De
 nmark\n“Heart Openings Project” (ERC starting grant)\n\nThe presentati
 on focuses on Longchen Rabjam’s (1308–1364) homage to Buddha Samantabh
 adra in his Treasure Trove of Scriptural Transmission\, a commentary on hi
 s root text Treasury of Basic Space. Renée Ford will show how the metapho
 rs used within this verse and other related acts of homage may be expressi
 ons of experience for Longchenpa and for others who engage in contemplativ
 e practices that incorporate devotion.\n\nFirstly\, the lecturer will expl
 ain how Longchenpa’s devotion to Samantabhadra is reflexive\, due to his
  “view” of Dzogchen. This reflexivity incorporates the metaphors used 
 to express the ultimate view in the homage. Secondly\, she explores the re
 lationship of “compassion responsiveness” (thugs rje) in the triad ess
 ence responsiveness\, nature responsiveness\, and compassion responsivenes
 s (ngo bo\, rang bzhin\, thugs rje) found throughout Dzogchen and Mahāmud
 rā.\n\nRenée Ford concludes by reading Longchenpa’s homage alongside a
  few specific microphenomenology interviews\, which focus on very short mo
 ments 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 allo
 wing the interviewee to express concrete dimensions of that experience.\n\
 nIn this presention\, the lecturer hopes to add to the conversation that J
 an-Ulrich Sobisch began in Do you speak Mahāmudrā? by discussing how met
 aphors allow for the “inexpressible” to become tangible and how they a
 re 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.  
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LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13)
URL:https://ceres.rub.de/en/events/guest-lecture-sfb-1475-04122023-en-1/
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