¿Es el buddhismo una religión atea? ¿Puede decirse que el ateísmo moderno sea una nueva religión? ¿Es el monoteísmo esencial al cristianismo? ¿Podemos hoy día seguir sordos por más tiempo a las voces de otros pueblos y culturas? Pero para oír, sin malentender, hay que aguzar el oído. Quizá el silencio del Buddha pudiera mostrarse elocuente a los que están saturados de palabras, tanto científicas como religiosas. Este libro, fruto de decenios de estudio y de experiencia, intenta superar el muro que la cultura occidental establece entre los mal denominados creyentes y los llamados ateos. El autor presenta el buddhismo desde su interior partiendo también del mismo corazón del cristianismo. El silencio del Buddha no es una apología del buddhismo, como tampoco lo es del cristianismo ni del ateísmo, sino que intenta más bien, sin espíritu partidista, encontrar un hilo conductor capaz de orientarnos a través de estas tres grandes sabidurías multiseculares. El libro sirve tanto de introducción al buddhismo, reproduciendo en la segunda parte algunos de sus textos esenciales, como de reflexión sobre la situación espiritual del hombre contemporáneo.

The Silence of God: The Answer of the Buddha (Faith Meets Faith Series)

Raimon Panikkar

History

Orbis Books

La Trinidad no es, como muchos creen, una exclusividad cristiana. La intuición trinitaria, aunque expresada con otros símbolos, se encuentra presente en la mayoría de las culturas de la humanidad. La Trinidad, en efecto, nos habla no sólo de las profundidades de lo Transcendental, sino también de las alturas del Hombre y de la realidad de la Tierra. A esta experiencia profunda Panikkar la denomina «Trinidad radical» y muestra cómo las más diversas tradiciones de la historia se pueden encontrar no en una sola religión, lengua, espiritualidad o cultura, sino en un diálogo fecundo entra ellas para llegar a una armonía en la que la humanidad pueda convivir en paz.La paz entre las religiones, como la concordia entre los hombres, no pueden conseguirse dentro del monismo monocultural dominante en nuestros días. Este libro, que en sus ediciones en otras lenguas europeas ha sido considerado como uno de los estudios más importantes de este siglo sobre el tema, ofrece la base, aunque sea sólo como semilla, para que sea un remedio a la crisis moderna y no un mero remiendo.

The Trinity and the religious experience of man;: Icon-person-mystery

Orbis Books (USA)

World-renowned philosopher of religion Raimon Panikkar sees wisdom as the art and knowledge of life and a source of happiness and joy--a dwelling place where people are blessed. In this book he discusses four major issues: an existential feminist approach to life and knowldge, a catholic and less fragmented anthropology, a recovery of the most ancient meaning of philosophy, and how to preserve one's own identity without being shallow, indifferent, or exclusive. He provides a distinctive practical resource for individuals wanting to experience wisdom.

A Dwelling Place for Wisdom

Religion & Spirituality

Religious Studies

Motilal Banarsidass

A Pilgrimage To Kailash

Milena Carrara Pavan

Motilal Banarsidass Publishers

This first volume of Opera Omnia is partly autobiographical, dealing as it does with the most important theme of Raimon Panikkar's life. It has been a distinct inspiration for all his writings, to the extent that it has become their indispensable hermeneutical key. Mysticism represents the third dimension that brings all the pages that follow into relief and into life. The reduction of existence to the senses or to reason limits Man to the status of a mere species among the various life forms : that of the rational animal. As we shall repeatedly see, human life (zoe) is not just its biological existence (bios). Man is not only in the likeness of God, the Source, the Beginning, the Wellspring, the Cause (all homeomorphic equivalents) but also in the image of Reality, a mikrokosmos as the Ancients used to say (up until Paracelsus and the followers of the philosophia adepta) that mirrors the whole makrokosmos. The distinction between image and likeness is more theological than lexical. Although for practical reasons this volume has been divided into two parts, it should be clarified from the outset that the two themes, mysticism and spirituality, may be distinguished but not separated. Few topics have had a worse reputation in some circles than mysticism, on which, to tell the truth, too much has been written, and badly; if we add the theme of spirituality as well, that the situation is even worse.

Mysticism and Spirituality: Opera Omnia (Volume 1): Mysticism, Fullness of Life (Part One)

This anthology aims at presenting the Vedas as a human experience that is still valid and capable of enriching and challenging modern Man, as he seeks to fulfill his responsibility in an age in which, for better or for worse, he is inseparably linked with his fellows and can no longer afford to live in isolation. Experiences cannot be transmitted but they can be described, and they can thus serve as stimuli to trigger our own experiences. An experience, as the word itself suggests, is something we go through, a threshold we cross, an enclosure into which we trespass, a nonrefundable outlay, an irreversible process. This anthology is also an invitation to appropriate for ourselves the basic experience of Vedic Man, not because it is interesting or ancient, but because it is human and thus belongs to us all. Indeed, among the many experiences of mankind, the Vedic experience is one that will evoke a responsive movement in that part of us that is numbed by the heavy pressures of modern life. Also an invitation to appropriate for ourselves the basic experience of Vedic Man, not because. We do not claim that what we have termed the "Vedic Experience" is precisely identical to that of Vedic Man. We may not be in a position to appropriate the intimate personal experience of a past generation. Our main concern is to make possible the Vedic experience of modern Man may usefully understand and assimilate by reenacting an experience that, because it is part of the total human experience, has left behind it clues and traces that may be important to follow. Thus it is our own own personal Vedic experience that "happens".

Hinduism: Opera Omnia (Volume 4): The Vedic Experience: Mantramanjari (Part 1)

Hinduism: Opera Omnia (Volume 4): The Dharma of India (Part 2)

Opera Omnia (Vol. 1, Part 2): Mysticism and Spirituality - Spirituality, the Way of Life

Motilal Banarsidass Publications

Opera Omnia (Vol. 5): Buddhism

Opera Omnia (Vol. 3, Part 2): Christianity - A Christophany

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