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Title: | Somewhere in COLDNESS lies Nibbāna : lexical manifestations of COLDNESS | Authors: | Xiong, J Huang, CR |
Issue Date: | 2018 | Source: | Lecture notes in computer science (including subseries Lecture notes in artificial intelligence and lecture notes in bioinformatics), 2018, v. 11173, p. 70-81 | Abstract: | This paper starts with an investigation of three coldness-related tactile words, viz. 寒 han2 ‘cold’, 冷 leng3 ‘cold’ and 涼 liang2 ‘cool’, in their synaesthetic and metaphorical uses in Modern Chinese. It is found that 冷 leng3 ‘cold’ is most versatile whereas 涼 liang2 ‘cool’ is most inert with regard to their synaesthetic and metaphorical mappings, with 寒 han2 ‘cold’ standing in the middle. Moreover, 寒 han2 ‘cold’ tends to be object-oriented, while 涼liang2 ‘cool’ is likely to be subject-oriented, with 冷 leng3 ‘cold’ allowing both subject- and object-oriented readings. We further conduct a study on the uses of these three tactile words in Buddhist texts of Āgamas, finding that 涼 liang2 ‘cool’ was consistently employed to refer the nibbānic status. Apart from it, two counts of 冷leng3 ‘cold’ exhibit the nibbānic meaning. However, 寒 han2 ‘cold’ is never attested in this philosophical meaning. It is interesting to note that a kind of tactile feeling is associated with nibbāna, even though nibbānic experience is supposed to transcend sensory experience. This finding, together with some other findings with regard to the relation between sensory expressions and nibbāna, can shed light on the linguistc expressions of the inexpressible nibbāna. | Keywords: | COLDNESS Han2 ‘cold’ Leng3 ‘cold’ Liang2 ‘cool’ Nibbāna |
Publisher: | Springer | Journal: | Lecture notes in computer science (including subseries Lecture notes in artificial intelligence and lecture notes in bioinformatics) | ISSN: | 0302-9743 | EISSN: | 1611-3349 | DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-030-04015-4_6 | Description: | 19th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2018, Chiayi, Taiwan, May 26-28, 2018 | Rights: | © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018 This version of the contribution has been accepted for publication, after peer review (when applicable) but is not the Version of Record and does not reflect post-acceptance improvements, or any corrections. The Version of Record is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04015-4_6. Use of this Accepted Version is subject to the publisher’s Accepted Manuscript terms of use https://www.springernature.com/gp/open-research/policies/accepted-manuscript-terms. |
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