{"product_id":"shimmering-mirrors-reality-and-appearance-in-contemplative-metaphysics-east-and-west-9781438466828","title":"Shimmering Mirrors: Reality and Appearance in Contemplative Metaphysics East and West","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Patrick Laude\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Comparative Religion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA study of comparative metaphysics that explores the concepts of Reality and Appearance and their relevance to contemporary religious consciousness.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this pioneering work of comparative metaphysics, Patrick Laude delves into Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Islamic, and Jewish concepts of Reality and Appearance to offer a uniquely lucid exploration of metaphysical representations of reality, relativity, appearance, and illusion. Laude includes discussions of the Absolute and the Relative in Hindu \u003ci\u003eAdvaita Vedānta\u003c\/i\u003e, Kashmiri Śaivism, Sufi \u003ci\u003ewahdat al-wujūd\u003c\/i\u003e, and Madhyamaka Buddhism; the metaphysics of salvation in Buddhist and Christian traditions; and the metaphysics of evil and the distinction between Reality and Appearance in the Jewish Kabbalah, Śaivism, Christian mysticism, and the Sufi school of Ibn al-'Arabī. The book explores how a discerning and subtle apprehension of the relationship between Reality and Appearance may help contemporary readers and seekers respond to the acute predicaments of contemporary religious and spiritual consciousness.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47813282726039,"sku":"9781438466828","price":3529.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781438466828.webp?v=1778334860","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/shimmering-mirrors-reality-and-appearance-in-contemplative-metaphysics-east-and-west-9781438466828","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}