Oneself as Another: Yantraputraka Metaphors in Buddhist Literature

Shinto and Buddhist Metaphors in Departures

Cinematic language is rich in examples of religious metaphors. One Japanese film that contains religious “tropes” (figurative language) is the 2008 human drama, Departures. This paper focuses on the analysis of religious metaphors encoded in select film shots, using semiotics as the theoretical framework for film analysis. The specific metaphors discussed in the paper are the Shinto view of dea...

Thinking of oneself as the same.

What is a person, and how can a person come to know that she is a person? Several answers have been explored by philosophers—having an individual body, and individual brain, having specific introspective access to one s thoughts. They all turned out to be non-starters. A major reason why they do not work, is that they fail to account in a non-circular way for the fact that a person is inherentl...

Experiencing oneself vs another person as being the cause of an action: the neural correlates of the experience of agency.

The present study is aimed at identifying the neural correlates of two kinds of attribution: experiencing oneself as the cause of an action (the sense of agency) or experiencing another person as being the cause of that action. The experimental conditions were chosen so that they differed only in their requirement to attribute an action to another person or to oneself. The same motor task and t...

domestication and foreignization in children literature translation

این پایان نامه به بررسی بومی سازی و بیگانه سازی در ادبیات کودکان مخصوصا زانر فانتزی می پردازد. در این پایان نامه ترجمه 14 کتاب داستان فانتزی برای سه گروه سنی کودکان بر اساس مدل ونوتی یعنی بومی سازی و بیگانه سازی مقاسه شدندکه در نتیجه برای سه گروه سنی از هر دو استراتزی توسط مترجمان در ترجمه کلمات فرهنگی استفاده شده است.

Prolegomenon to the Study of Medieval Chinese Buddhist Literature