Nirvāṇa e o corpo: a hermenêutica da libertação

Nirvāṇa and the body: the hermeneutics of liberation

Abstract

It is the second article of five that studies the notion of nirvāṇa experience interpreted and classified as teachings in the form of concepts (dharma). In Buddhist literature there is the class of Abhidharma as a structured conceptual record from the time of the historical Buddha (V B.C.). The fundamental structure of exposition of the conceptual schemes is given by the Four Noble Truths. The study of this article turns to the body as materiality and as sensoriality and the impact of nirvana experience over it. But also verifies the complexity of the translation of the terms that classify the phenomena (dharmas) as: pure and impure, virtuous and vicious, conditioned and unconditioned, under the name of “body” elements. The complexity of the translation is due to the context of the Indian Buddhist record and the Roman Catholic Christian record under the terms kuśala and veris
pieta, both translated as virtue. It then moves on to an explanation of the effects of the experience of nirvāṇa that can be felt from meditation as suppression by non-discursive concentration. Finally, it prepares the way for future studies of the faculties (indriya) and the impact of the experience of nirvāṇa on them.

Keywords: body, nirvāṇa, abhidharma, Vasubandhu, virtue, experience