{"product_id":"9781438466835","title":"Shimmering Mirrors: Reality and Appearance in Contemplative Metaphysics East and West","description":"\u003ci\u003eA study of comparative metaphysics that explores the concepts of Reality and Appearance and their relevance to contemporary religious consciousness.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 \u003ci\u003eAdvaita Vedānta\u003c\/i\u003e, Kashmiri Śaivism, Sufi \u003ci\u003ewahdat al-wujūd\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47154593300720,"sku":"9781438466835","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781438466835_p0.jpg?v=1763756838","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781438466835","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}