By Zhihua Yao

This hugely unique paintings explores the concept that of self-awareness or self-consciousness in Buddhist concept. Its crucial thesis is that the Buddhist conception of self-cognition originated in a soteriological dialogue of omniscience one of the Mahasamghikas, after which developed right into a subject of epistemological inquiry one of the Yogacarins. to demonstrate this principal topic, this publication explores a wide physique of basic assets in chinese language, Pali, Sanskrit and Tibetan, such a lot of that are offered to an English readership for the 1st time. It makes to be had vital assets for the learn of the Buddhist philosophy of brain.

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Puerto Rico’s seemingly baffling response, however, had roots in the growing investment of boricua political and economic hopes in American agency during the late nineteenth century. Deep in the bowels of the Puerto Rico section of the Cuban Revolutionary Party located in New York City, for instance, many exiles sought independence from Spain and subsequent 11 WEIGHING IN THEORY annexation to the United States. This position articulated the all too recent memories of state violence during the “terrible year of 1887,” when Spanish authorities persecuted, exiled, and even tortured pro-autonomist advocates, and by the economic realities of Puerto Rico as a peninsular colony during this period.

As the members of Silén’s generation found work as ac= ademics, technocrats, advertisers, and public servants, they spun feel-good stories that would saturate public culture and set the stage for boricua iden= tity in ways that elite attempts to attenuate shame never could. Although na= tionalism has not been successful in canceling the shame of boricua identity, one of the most important effects of this strategy has been that Puerto Rican “nationality”—in certain terms—became a compulsory social artifact with which both elite culture and popular culture have since had to contend.

Congressman Henry Teller, a champion of (at least nominal) sovereignty for Cuba, explicitly rejected the proposition that Puerto Ricans become citizens by casting boricuas as “queer” Cubans: “I don’t like the Puerto Rican; they are not fighters like the Cubans; they were subjugated to Spanish tyranny for hundreds of years without being men enough to oppose it. 30 From the enduring affect of American contempt necessary to pursue colo= nial economic and political interests, boricua agency, be it enthusiasm for the metropolis, demands for self-government, or democratic cravings, invariably came to confirm inferiority, represented in both racial and gendered (or bet= ter still, racially engendered) terms.

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