{"id":4952,"date":"2021-09-19T13:12:06","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T17:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/?p=4952"},"modified":"2021-09-19T13:12:06","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T17:12:06","slug":"the-existential-and-soteriological-value-of-sa%e1%b9%83vega-pasada-in-early-buddhism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2021\/09\/19\/the-existential-and-soteriological-value-of-sa%e1%b9%83vega-pasada-in-early-buddhism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Existential and Soteriological Value of Sa\u1e43vega\/Pas\u0101da in Early Buddhism"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>ISSN 1076-9005<br \/>\nVolume 28, 2021<\/h6>\n<h3>Aesthetic Emotions: The Existential and Soteriological Value of <em>Sa\u1e43vega<\/em>\/<em>Pas\u0101da<\/em> in Early Buddhism<\/h3>\n<p>Lisa Liang and Brianna K. Morseth<br \/>\nDharma Realm Buddhist University<\/p>\n<p>Across the globe, our continued existence in light of present conditions is uncertain. Rapid spread of disease and risk of complications endanger the human population. Such challenging circumstances may shock and devastate us, inducing mass panic and pandemonium amid the pervasive threat of pandemic. Yet according to Buddhist philosophy, existential unease can also spawn deep transformation. In this paper, we examine a pair of aesthetic emotions (<em>sa\u1e43vega<\/em>\/<em>pas\u0101da<\/em>) from the early Buddhist tradition that together hold the potential to induce critical reflection and productive engagement in response to existential threat. By referring to <em>sa\u1e43vega<\/em>\/<em>pas\u0101da<\/em> as aesthetic emotions, we intend to draw out their distinctive, often visually-oriented soteriological function. While initially disorienting and perhaps even paralyzing, <em>sa\u1e43vega<\/em> and <em>pas\u0101da<\/em> are ultimately reorienting and motivating factors on the path to liberation from the suffering entailed by cyclic existence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/files\/2021\/09\/Liang-and-Morseth_21_F-1.pdf\"> Read article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 28, 2021 Aesthetic Emotions: The Existential and Soteriological Value of Sa\u1e43vega\/Pas\u0101da in Early Buddhism Lisa Liang and Brianna K. Morseth Dharma Realm Buddhist University Across the globe, our continued existence in light of present conditions is uncertain. Rapid spread of disease and risk of complications endanger the human population. Such challenging circumstances &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2021\/09\/19\/the-existential-and-soteriological-value-of-sa%e1%b9%83vega-pasada-in-early-buddhism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Existential and Soteriological Value of Sa\u1e43vega\/Pas\u0101da in Early Buddhism<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[333236],"tags":[1939,2733,80547,2663,2594,2589,333252,333253,333251,2592],"class_list":["post-4952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volume-28-2021-2","tag-death","tag-emotions","tag-fear","tag-indian-buddhism","tag-mahayana","tag-meditation","tag-pasada","tag-savega","tag-serenity","tag-theravada"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5X8HA-1hS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}