Guest Editorial. "The more intense the practice, the more intense the demons": A Few Hermeneutic Caveats
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https://doi.org/10.11575/jah.v0i0.53298Abstract
In this editorial, I summon something of the intimate dangers of carefully studying and becoming familiar with the slipstreams of lives, both that live in us, and that we, wittingly or otherwise, live within.References
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Gadamer, H.G. (1960/1989). Truth and method. New York, NY: Continuum Press.
Gadamer, H.G. (2007). The Gadamer reader: A bouquet of the later writings (R.E. Palmer, Ed. & Trans.). Evanston IL: Northwestern University Press.
Heidegger, M. (1976/1962). Being and time. New York NY: Harper and Row.
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Patrul (1998). The words of my perfect teacher. Boston, MA: Shambhala.
Tsong-Kha-Pa (2000). The great treatise on the stages of the path to enlightenment (Lam rim chen mo) Vol. 1. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications.
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