Love of Knowledge (Time, Space, & Knowledge Series) [Paperback]

Tarthang Tulku (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0898001382 | ISBN-13: 978-0898001389 | Publication Date: January 1, 1987

Knowledge is an active process expressed through inquiry itself, and is not just a matter of content.

Product Details

• Paperback: 447 pages
• Publisher: Dharma Publishing (January 1, 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0898001382
• ISBN-13: 978-0898001389
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,127,061 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Body of Love: Inquire Within, November 24, 2004

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Myron Makewater "redcrosseknight" (Laramie) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Love of Knowledge (Time, Space, & Knowledge Series) (Paperback)

Love of Knowledge is a very interesting piece of experimental literature. Not all the experiments succeed (the short poems and drawings are definitely a product of the time and are for now at least retro-cool), but all are useful to the reader. Every gesture Tarthang Tulku makes in this book accumulates and contributes to a particular effect:

Reading this is not unlike tracing the threads in several antique quilts of different design at once, and one of those quilts is sewn together from the reader's response to the text, the other "quilts". Done reading and trying the mind-experiments Tarthang Tulku offers you? The signs, smells, sounds, and other sensory experiences arise, too, in the same pattern the book pointed out to you. This is doubly uncanny because in the world "nothing has changed, it's still the same." Love of Knowledge doesn't introduce the reader to a virtual reality, but a new take on the same ol' tune.

Michel Foucault argues in The Order of Things that our understanding of the world is not what we assume it to be, and that our normal, comfortable, hypothetically sane conventional truths are not self-evident, not the only or best way to approach the Thing-as-such, or anything at all. Tarthang Tulku lets you experience that insight for yourself in Love of Knowledge.

Aesthetically, Love of Knowledge is my favorite of the Time, Space, Knowledge books (but the others are also really, really good).