One suggestion is that the darkness is a deliberate inversion of the transfiguration; alternately, Jesus's earlier discourse about a future tribulation mentions the sun being darkened, and can be seen as foreshadowing this scene.
In one of his earlier discourses, the Buddha declares that we ought to regard any form of sensation and consciousness, whether "past, future, or present; internal or external; manifest or subtle...as it actually is...: 'This is not mine.
Indian Buddhist analyses of the mind span a period of some fifteen centuries, from the earliest discourses of the Buddha (ca. 450 B.C.E). to the systematic developments of late Mahāyāna Buddhism (500 1000 C.E).
But already in early Christian discourse, the term is applied to the challenge of coping with religious difference and conflict.
This early modern discourse needs to be clearly differentiated from its medieval precursor and is therefore excluded from consideration here.
(Harootunian, 143-168) There is an important and ongoing national narrative in which Kokugaku is valorized as the intellectual movement that marked the emergence of a Japanese national consciousness in the late eighteenth century, with the result that the early modern discourse in the modern Japanese discussions of social, political, and cultural identity.
Unlike the earlier Buddhist discourses that are colloquial in nature, the Abhidharma method presents the Buddha's teachings in technical terms that are carefully defined to ensure analytical exactitude.
Drawing on an analysis of government reports, journal articles, and media coverage published since 1998, this article sets out to trace and unpack some of the contours of these convergences, while recognizing their entanglement in earlier moralizing discourses, which continue to have considerable salience.
"Let's hear their stories!" implores Reese, rightly identifying that celebrities talking about themselves is the great lacuna of early 21st-century discourse.
