{"product_id":"9781438466828","title":"Shimmering Mirrors : Reality and Appearance in Contemplative Metaphysics East and West","description":"\u003cp\u003eA study of comparative metaphysics that explores the concepts of Reality and Appearance and their relevance to contemporary religious consciousness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\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 Advaita Vedānta, Kashmiri Śaivism, Sufi wahdat al-wujūd, 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":"Default Title","offer_id":49252330471651,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0764\/3758\/6147\/files\/9781438466828-1.jpg?v=1788518671","url":"https:\/\/usa.kinokuniya.com\/products\/9781438466828","provider":"Books Kinokuniya USA","version":"1.0","type":"link"}