scholarly journals Buddha u prvom i trećem pripovjednom licu

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 115-134
Author(s):  
Višnja Grabovac
Keyword(s):  
Buddhist Literature ◽  
The Future ◽  
Life Issues ◽  
Third Person ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
Narrative Voices

BUDDHA IN THE FIRST- AND THIRD-PERSON NARRATION The Jätakas tales about previous existences of Gotama Buddha are a voluminous and extremely popular part of Buddhist literature. Told, according to the Buddhist belief, by Gotama himself, the jätakas describe the path of the future Buddha (Bodhisatta) who, being reborn numerous times as human, animal or deity, gradually moves towards his last existence and Enlightenment. The paper aims to show a manner in which the shift between narrative voices simultaneously allows identification and distinction between Buddha and Bodhisatta (based on the research by Naomi Appleton and Sarah Shaw, and accompanied by additional explanations and illustrations). The Jätakas are presented in the light of the Buddhist doctrines of no-self and Buddhist interpretation of the rebirth-process. Also, it is suggested that the lasting popularity and the lure of the jätakas can be seen as rooted in their potency to serve as a kind of model for resolving various life-issues to which even a modern-day reader can relate to. The paper also aims to introduce Croatian readers to extremely diverse and numerous motifs and themes presented in the Päli Jätaka collection.

How can we elicit more complex thinking in Year 7 students for understanding and resolving life-issues?

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 225-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Richard Smith ◽  
Anne Lesley Knowles
Keyword(s):  
School Bullying ◽  
Christian School ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
North West ◽  
Complex Thinking ◽  
The North ◽  
Person Perspective ◽  
Life Issues ◽  
Third Person ◽  
Third Person Perspective

This article explores the cognitive processes by which Year 7 students (aged 11 to 13 years) use personal viewpoints to interpret and resolve life-issues. A Christian school located in the North West of Sydney wanted to find out if the proportionally higher occurrence of discipline issues in newly enrolled Year 7 students could be explained by those students having a more diverse range of personal viewpoints than Year 7 students who had been enrolled for a longer time. To address this question, we conducted a survey of Year 7 students at the school in early 2015. The survey consisted of five open-ended questions related to a hypothetical school bullying situation. The students’ answers were coded according to the various types of personal viewpoints they used to form an interpretation of the scenario event and to resolve the issue. The students’ responses reflected 18 personal viewpoints across the five questions. Their answers varied in their use of complex personal viewpoints – that is, answers consisting of two or more simple personal viewpoints. A pattern was discerned from the varying proportions of complex viewpoints each question elicited, some questions drawing a high proportion of complex viewpoints. The differing proportions of complex personal viewpoints used in answering each of the five questions suggested that a higher proportion of complex personal viewpoints indicated the occurrence of enhanced complex thinking. A further finding was that students used a higher proportion of complex personal viewpoints when answering questions that challenged them to take a third-person perspective on the protagonists in the narrative.

Synchronicity and Responsibility in Semiotics

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Petrilli
Keyword(s):  
Present Situation ◽  
Conscious Awareness ◽  
Specific Task ◽  
New Science ◽  
The Future ◽  
Terrestrial Life ◽  
Human World ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
Charles Peirce ◽  
And Control

AbstractThe synchronic vision is the expression of conscious awareness of the present situation, a totalizing vision capable of gazing at all of life responsibly, at all semiosis over the planet. John Deely’s vision of synchrony’s inevitable seepage into diachrony is connected with the fact that we are members of the societies of human animals who first engendered a “community of inquirers focused on the action of signs”. Deely reconstructs the pathway that from Saussurean semiology leads through Charles Peirce, Charles Morris, and Thomas Sebeok to the new “science of signs” conceived, recovering Locke, as the “doctrine of signs”. Insofar as the human animal is a “semiotic animal” he or she is capable of metasemiosis and therefore of knowledge and control. Consequently, the human animal, a semiotic animal, is also susceptible of responsibility: responsibility that concerns not only the human world and the possibility of the future of anthroposemiosis, but rather all of semiosis, all of terrestrial life, “Gaia”. Insisting on the interdependency, in semiotics, between synchronicity and responsibility, Deely evidences the specific task of semiotics, which is a task that is reserved to the semiotician as such.

scholarly journals PROGNOSTICATION IN CHINESE BUDDHIST HISTORICAL TEXTS THE GĀOSĒNG ZHUÀN AND THE XÙ GĀOSĒNG ZHUÀN

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-45
Author(s):  
Gang Yang ◽  
Christoph Anderl
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Buddhist Literature ◽  
Historical Texts ◽  
Historical Literature ◽  
Short Survey ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Events ◽  
The One ◽  
By Products

This paper explores topics and techniques of prognostication as recorded in medieval Buddhist historical literature, with an emphasis on the Gāosēng zhuàn 高僧傳 (GSZ) and Xù gāosēng zhuàn 續高僧傳 (XGSZ). The paper first provides a short survey of how prognostication is treated in Chinese Buddhist translated texts. In these ‘canonical’ sources there is clear ambiguity over the use of supernatural powers: on the one hand, such practices are criticised as non-Buddhist or even heterodox; on the other, narratives on Śākyamuni’s former and present lives as well as accounts of other buddhas, bodhisattvas, and the Buddha’s disciples abound with descriptions of their special abilities, including knowledge of the future. In contrast, the GSZ and XGSZ display a clear standpoint concerning mantic practices and include them as integral aspects of monastics’ lives. The two texts articulate that the ability to predict the future and other supernatural powers are natural by-products of spiritual progress in the Buddhist context. This paper discusses the incorporation of various aspects of the Indian and Chinese traditions in monastics’ biographies, and investigates the inclusion of revelations of future events (for example, in dreams) and mantic techniques in these texts. In addition, it traces parallels to developments in non-Buddhist literature and outlines some significant differences between the GSZ and the XGSZ.

scholarly journals A Vision For The Future of Non Binary Fashion on Video Trans Animal Conceptual Sculpture Performance Explorations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick James Edelman
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Dance Performance ◽  
Transformative Power ◽  
The Future ◽  
Practice Based Research ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
Wearable Sculpture ◽  
The Relationship

The Vision for the Future of Non-binary Fashion on Video is a practice- based research project that examines the relationship between trans and non-binary bodies to, public space through creative methods of wearable sculpture, dance, performance and experimental video. This project enacts my theory of gender pregnancy, that one can achieve a non-binary appearance through using garments, motifs, or colors typically associated with binary gender and juxtaposing them into one look that is full of gender. This project dismantles binary notions of gender, public/private, mind/body and human/animal. Through the use of performance this project speaks to the transformative power of queer visibility in reclaiming public space. The resulting video, Trans Animal Fashion Futures, presents similarities between trans experiences and non-human animals in an to situate trans narratives as part of the ‘natural’ environment. Ultimately, this project engages with trans subjects and experiences to imagine queer collective futures in the interest of all.

scholarly journals The Horse behind the Text: Animal Agency in Early Medieval Historiography

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-85
Author(s):  
Marieke Röben
Keyword(s):  
Animal Studies ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Narrative Structures ◽  
Narrative Device ◽  
The Future ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Medieval Historiography ◽  
Animal Agency

Early medieval authors frequently used horses as narrative devices. Therefore, when working with historiographical sources, one is confronted with a vital question: how can we reconstruct the horses’ agency without knowing whether their depiction is a mere narrative device? Combining praxeological approaches with the analysis of narrative structures, this paper offers a glance “beyond the text.” It shows how analysing the underlying knowledge of the medieval reader contributes to reconstructing a contemporary image of early medieval horses and their (perceived) agency in human society and thereby develops a new perspective for the future of historical human-animal studies.

The Future in Thought and Talk

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
David R. Gibson
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Group Interaction ◽  
Final Part ◽  
Linguistic Expression ◽  
Second Person ◽  
The Past ◽  
Making Choices ◽  
The Future ◽  
Third Person

This chapter develops the book's theoretical perspective. It begins with some foundational ideas about how we think about the future, particularly in connection with making choices. It then builds from solitary thought to the level of group interaction by asking what new properties are introduced when, to quiet reflection, we add linguistic expression, then a second person with whom to converse, then a third person, and finally more people still. The second half of the chapter asks, How do people collaboratively tell stories, and particularly stories about the future? It draws on existing research on collaborative storytelling about the past, but also introduces important extensions as needed to incorporate multiple and sometimes competing predictions about events that have not yet occurred. Central to this discussion is the notion of narrative relevance, which specifies what sorts of contributions can be economically and intelligibly made at any point in an episode of collaborative narration. Once we have a framework for saying what can be relevantly said, we are also in a position to judge when something is relevant but not said. The final part of the chapter considers what suppression means theoretically and how we are to recognize its occurrence empirically.

scholarly journals Die ontwikkeling van die menslike bewussyn: Kan die postmodernekerk ruimte bied vir ‘mitologie’? Ken Wilber se bydrae tot die pastoraat

2010 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ignatius W. Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Conveyer Belt ◽  
Human Consciousness ◽  
Ecological Sensitivity ◽  
Ken Wilber ◽  
Person Perspective ◽  
Sexual Orientations ◽  
The Future ◽  
Third Person ◽  
Third Person Perspective

The development of the human consciousness: Can a ‘postmodern church’ accommodate ‘mythology’? Ken Wilber’s contribution to pastoral carePostmodern theologians like Hal Taussig are not very optimistic about the future of Christianity. To them, the theistic (mythological) understanding of God is of little use in the postmodern world of the 21st century. Taussig prefers the grassroots Christianity, which has room for persons of all sexual orientations, and advocates ecological sensitivity. The question is: What do the followers of this spirituality teach their children about God? The solution is what Wilber calls ‘the conveyer belt’ and God’s ‘Kosmic address’. Everyone starts at square one, ‘traditional’ and grassroots Christians alike, and move along this conveyer belt. Along the way, there are seven stages and three perspectives, i.e. the first, second and third-person perspective, through which human consciousness could evolve. That means that any given person could have one of 21 different possible understandings and experiences of God. A questionnaire could assist pastors to determine at which stage or level of evolution an individual is, as well as the ‘Kosmic address’ that God has for that individual. Through spiritual exercises, pastors could then support the individual’s further growth towards mature human consciousness.

One Voice or Many? The Identity of the Narrators in Noah’s Birth Story (1QapGen 1–5.27) and in the ‘Book of the Words of Noah’ (1QapGen 5.29–18.23)

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 89-105
Author(s):  
Matthias Weigold
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
First Person ◽  
Jewish Literature ◽  
Genesis Apocryphon ◽  
Third Person ◽  
Birth Story ◽  
Narrative Voices

The present article explores the puzzling variety of narrative voices in the so-called Genesis Apocryphon from Qumran Cave 1. Lamech, Noah, and Abram in turn act as first person narrator, and all three of these stories also include third person narration. Focusing on the columns preceding the Abram story, it is shown that both the account of Noah’s birth (1–5.27) and the ‘Book of the Words of Noah’ (5.29–18.23) are basically narrated in the first person by Lamech and Noah, respectively. It is concluded that the rare shifts to third person narration are not unusual in ancient Jewish literature.

scholarly journals Pedagogy of hope: global learning and the future of education

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Bourn
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Global Learning ◽  
Development Education ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
The Future ◽  
Life Issues ◽  
Global Events ◽  
Pedagogy Of Hope ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Future Of Education

Global events such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the climate emergency campaigns and the Black Lives Matter movements have recently posed challenges for educationalists about their role, particularly in relation to promoting positive visions of the future. Development education and global learning has a major contribution to make within these agendas, particularly if it brings into its practices the ideas of Paulo Freire and his concept of the pedagogy of hope. Hope can often be considered an idealistic and utopian term, but if it is grounded in real life issues and challenges, then it can provide a valuable approach to learning about global issues. Recent examples in the UK and the initiative by UNESCO on Futures of Education demonstrate ways in which questions can be posed about the future of education that can be empowering to all learners.

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