{"product_id":"buddhism-and-the-senses-a-guide-to-the-good-and-bad-9781614298908","title":"Buddhism and the Senses: A Guide to the Good and Bad","description":"\u003cb\u003eAcross Buddhist traditions, the five senses--sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch--are perceived both positively and negatively. Share our eminent scholars' fascination and deep insight into what makes a sensuous experience good or bad.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFollowing on the exhibition \u003ci\u003eEncountering the Buddha: Art and Practice across Asia\u003c\/i\u003e at the National Museum of Asian Art, ten eminent scholars present their insights into Buddhism's fascinating relation with the five senses (sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch), which careens between delight and disgust, rarely finding a middle way. While much of Buddhist literature is devoted to overcoming the attachment that dooms us to rebirth in samsara, primarily by deprecating sense experience and showing that whatever brings us sensual pleasure leads only to physical and mental pain, in texts such as the \u003ci\u003eLotus Sutra\u003c\/i\u003e, sensory powers do not offer sensory pleasure but rather knowledge, clear observation, and ability to teach the Dharma. Considering such religiously and historically contingent ambiguity, this volume presents each of the five senses in two instantiations, the good and the bad, opening up the discourse on the senses across Buddhist traditions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Just as the museum departed from tradition to incorporate sensory experiences into the exhibition, this volume is a new direction in scholarship to humanize Buddhist studies by foregrounding sensory experience and practice, inviting the reader to think about the senses in a focused manner and shifting our understanding of Buddhism from the conceptual to the material or practical, from the idealized to the human, from the abstract to the grounded, from the mind to the body.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wisdom Publications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/24\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781614298908\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 6.20w x 1.00d","brand":"Robert Decaroli","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44655450226869,"sku":"9781614298908","price":33.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_e073f9c9-f8f6-40ce-bfe0-c0127f77061a.jpg?v=1727192308","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/buddhism-and-the-senses-a-guide-to-the-good-and-bad-9781614298908","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}