206 KB52 KB201120252022Benedičič, Lukaštevilka:105/106letnik:27str. 63-84DOI:10.35469/poligrafi.2022.341ISSN:1318-8828COBISSID_HOST:136525315URN:URN:NBN:SI:doc-9Y5DEW88enDruštvo za primerjalno religiologijoZnanstveno-raziskovalno središče KoperPoligrafiangažirani budizemBuddhismbudizemChinese religioncosmopoliticsengaged Buddhismkitajska religijakozmopolitikaontological turnontološki obratpoliticspolitikaWestern-centrismzahodnocentrizemThe burning monk| a review of a buddhist’s self-immolation during the Vietnam war|This paper is a study of the self-immolation of the Mahayana Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc in 1963, Saigon. It highlights some of the reactions to this event, as well as more recent academic analyses, and contrasts them with the letter of the monk Thich Nhat Hanh who disagreed that the self-immolation was a protest or suicide. This ontological discrepancy motivated new research approaches. In order to show it as studyable, the paper thematizes it by introducing the conceptual pair of visible-invisible. It presents a discussion by Mario Blaser that addresses the field of epistemology and ontology, also commenting on some fundamental theoretical approaches such as the ontological turn and cosmopolitics. The paper argues that the invisible – for example ontological – contents of the event have been overlooked in many analyses, or oversimplified by using an objectivist or political vocabularyAvtor v članku preučuje samozažig mahajanskega budističnega meniha Thicha Quanga Duca v Sajgonu leta 1963. Izpostavi nekaj odzivov na ta dogodek in novejše akademske analize ter jih kontrastira s pismom meniha Thicha Nhata Hanha, ki je nasprotoval interpretacijam, da je bil samozažig protest ali samomor. Ta ontološka diskrepanca je spodbudila nove raziskovalne pristope. Da bi diskrepanco prikazal kot preučljivo, jo avtor tematizira z vpeljevanjem pojmovnega para vidnega?nevidnega. Predstavi razpravo Maria Blaserja, ki obravnava področji epistemologije in ontologije ter komentira nekatere temeljne teoretske pristope, med njimi ontološki obrat in kozmopolitiko. Zagovarja tezo, da so bile nevidne ? denimo ontološke ? vsebine omenjenega dogodka v številnih analizah spregledane ali pa so bile zaradi uporabe objektivističnega ali političnega besednjaka predstavljene preveč poenostavljenoTEXTznanstveno časopisjejournalsSlovenian National E-content AggregatorNational and University Library of SloveniaZnanstveno-raziskovalno središče Koper