An Encounter with an Encounter: Truth, Evidence and Reality in Cross-Border Moments

Authors

  • Bernadette Baker

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14288/jaaacs.v11i1.188881

Abstract

Bernadette Baker provides a critical reading of the Dalai Lama’s recent treatment of the contrasts between Buddhist conceptualizations of truth, evidence, and reality and those of the so-called Western sciences. Baker develops a number of intertwining lines of thought, including a central concern with the place of border-thinking in all such conceptualizations. Throughout, questions are raised regarding how we, as a field, choose to conceive of the relations between empirical reality and truth.

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Published

2016-11-30

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Critical Review Essays