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Preliminary Study on Eye in the Tibetan Language (with Reference to Literature)

dc.abstract.enThe chapter focuses on the Tibetan usage of ‘eye(s)’ in its neutral (mig) and honorific (spyan) forms with regard to their bodily and figurative meanings. While like in other languages, ‘eyes’ in Tibetan expressions refer to the faculty of seeing and perceiving, due to the influence of Buddhism the honorific form is used to denote many more mental activities. The name of the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara, translated into Tibetan as Spyan ras gzigs (‘the one who sees mercifully’), broadened the association of eye(s) with compassion. In addition, a significant role of the eye(s) in religious practices relating to the bodhisattva (‘one whose goal is awakening’) and holy images is discussed, as well as some examples of the ‘eyes’ in Tibetan literature.
dc.affiliationUniwersytet Warszawski
dc.contributor.authorBareja-Starzyńska, Agata
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-29T02:24:22Z
dc.date.available2024-01-29T02:24:22Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.financeNie dotyczy
dc.identifier.urihttps://repozytorium.uw.edu.pl//handle/item/158462
dc.identifier.weblinkhttps://brill.com/view/book/9789004498594/BP000010.xml
dc.languageeng
dc.pbn.affiliationliterary studies
dc.publisher.ministerialBrill
dc.relation.bookEmbodiment in Cross-Linguistic Studies. The ‘Eye’
dc.relation.pages184–203
dc.rightsClosedAccess
dc.sciencecloudnosend
dc.subject.enTibetan culture, Tibetan language,
dc.titlePreliminary Study on Eye in the Tibetan Language (with Reference to Literature)
dc.typeMonographChapter
dspace.entity.typePublication