On Monday 3 April we will have the pleasure of hosting Matteo Martini on our YouTube channel, curator of the essay by Alexandra David-Néel Immortality and reincarnation. Doctrines and practices of China, Tibet and India, whose Italian edition was recently published by Aurora Boreale editions.
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ABSTRACT
Alexandra David-Néel (1868-1969) was a true "traveler of the Spirit" and one of the first Westerners to reach recognized spiritual centers and teachers of the Eastern Tradition, and to have earned the recognition necessary to be admitted to receive teachings, despite the double prejudice of being a woman and a European. She deserves the credit for having made known the world of oriental wisdom doctrines outside the limits of profane academic research - albeit necessary in some respects - but from within an initiatory context: an approach not far from that of the great historian of religions Mircea Eliade. This volume, less known than the famous mystics and magicians of Tibet, is a small treatise on comparative esotericism, addressing the theme of post-mortem according to three traditional systems: Taoism, Vajrayana Buddhism and Upanishadic Hinduism. The fundamental introductory essay by the curator Matteo Martini helps to contextualize the formal differences between these three strands, to understand their substantial unity beyond the form, and analyzes the technical aspects also in relation to the Western tradition, Hermeticism and the doctrine esoterica of “conditioned immortality”.
MATTEO MARTINI
Doctor in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology, he studied History of Science and Philosophy of Science at the La Sapienza University of Rome and was a professor of orthomolecular and functional medicine; but above all he has been practicing and studying oriental martial arts, traditional Chinese and Tibetan medicine for years and has had transmissions in the field of Vajrayana Buddhism. He also deals with issues relating to new technologies compared with the so-called Traditional Studies, esotericism and oriental religious doctrines. He is also co-author and editor of several texts and has collaborated with the Nexus magazine.
