The Seba library treats Refuge in 8 passages, across 8 authors (including Coleman, Graham, Evans-Wentz, W. Y., Corbin, Henry).
Together these three form the outer objects of refuge... regarded as the perfect objects in which refuge can be sought from the unsatisfactory nature of life in cyclic existence
This passage defines refuge in its canonical Buddhist-Vajrayana sense as the act of orienting toward the Three Precious Jewels as protection from the suffering intrinsic to conditioned existence.
, The Tibetan Book of the Dead (Penguin Classics), 2005thesis
'Be ye a refuge to yourselves. Betake yourselves to no external refuge. Hold fast to the Truth as a lamp. Hold fast to the Truth as a refuge. Look not for refuge to any one besides yourselves.'
The Buddha's dying injunction in the Mahaparinibbana Sutta radically internalizes refuge, making the self and the Truth — not external authority — the ultimate locus of protection.
, The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation, 1954thesis
to seek refuge from His Apparition would have been for Maryam and would be for the mystic to retreat from oneself, to take refuge from oneself... To seek refuge is perhaps the first movement of the novice Spiritual
Corbin reframes refuge as spiritual evasion: the impulse to flee the divine theophany is simultaneously a flight from one's own deepest identity, a movement that forecloses genuine mystical encounter.
, Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn Arabi, 1969thesis
what Garrett HARDIN called 'emotional refuge,' refuge in the warmth, safety and the seeming religious solemnity of a cosmos of beautiful, but noncommittal images and gentle, vague psychological conceptions suggesting a higher meaning of life
Giegerich deploys 'emotional refuge' as a critical concept to diagnose how depth psychology may be co-opted as a defense against rigorous thought, offering comforting imagery in place of genuine engagement.
, The Soul’s Logical Life Towards a Rigorous Notion of, 2020thesis
Nibbana... was 'the Truth,' 'the Subtle,' 'the Other Shore,' 'the Everlasting,' 'Peace,' 'the Superior Goal,' 'Safety,' 'Purity, Freedom, Independence, the Island, the Shel
Armstrong's enumeration of Nibbana's epithets — including 'Safety,' 'the Island,' and 'the Shelter' — establishes the semantic cluster in which refuge finds its highest Buddhist analog: a state beyond ego rather than mere protection within it.
, Buddha, 2000supporting
whether it was initially a signal of an environment offering safety and a sweeping vantage (i. e., prospect and refuge) and was later triggered by impressive leaders, is worthy of further discussion
From evolutionary emotion theory, the prospect-refuge dyad is proposed as a possible functional origin of awe, positioning refuge as an environmental cue of safety linked to the emotion's adaptive history.
, The Function of Emotions: When and Why Emotions Help Us, 2018supporting
takes refuge in the unoccupied zone, and from there succeeds in fleeing to Switzerland, where he works in the library of Fribourg
A biographical aside recording Benveniste's literal wartime refuge, illustrating the existential dimension of the term outside its symbolic register.
, Last Lectures: Collège de France 1968 and 1969, 2012aside
Reconstructions of an a.d. 18th century Heiau. 'The City of Refuge,' Hawaii
A passing reference to the Hawaiian City of Refuge as a sacred institution, gesturing toward the cross-cultural archetype of consecrated sanctuary without thematic elaboration.
, The Mythic Image, 1974aside