Potęga pustki. Spojrzenie na problem banalizacji z perspektywy myśli buddyjskiej (pamięci Czesława Robotyckiego)
The Power of Void. A Look at the Problem of Trivialization from the Perspective of the Buddhist Thought (in Remembrance of Czesław Robotycki)

Summary/Abstract: This article was inspired by a paper written by Czesław Robotycki, which was entitled O banalizacji tekstów w etnografii [On the Trivialization of Texts in Ethnography]. According to Robotycki, the trivialization boils down to the disproportion between the tools used and the social and cultural reality they describe. This is particularly the case when authors resort to ready‑made and often identical interpretative clichés, usually theories that are popular at a given time. This article is, in a sense, an elaboration of Robotycki’s ideas, although its main aim is to provide key information and categories related to the understanding of the Buddhist concept of emptiness which, from the perspective of Buddhist thought, expresses the complexity of all phenomena while sensitizing us to the fact that every generalization, whether it is a single word or an elaborate theory, is at best a form of image of the reality described in this way.

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