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The article surveys a variety of metaphors used by well-known Tibetan Buddhist authors in a selection of texts where they explain the basics of meditation to the general (mainly non-initiated) audience.
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We provide linguistic evidence of conceptual metaphors that help construe the conceptual representation of meditation drawing on a selection of source domains that evoke vivid images related to everyday experience. The findings may allow for a comparison between traditional Buddhist models and those already identified within the context of Western mindfulness and meditation practices (Silvestre-López, 2016a).
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This page is a summary of: Metaphors in the conceptualisation of meditative practices, Metaphor and the Social World, July 2017, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/msw.7.1.03sil.
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