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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Relating or pertaining to the theory of emanation: as, emanational ideas.

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  • In Blake's poetics, however, these figures of openness and copulation also carry spiritual connotations, since they anticipate Jerusalem's highly privileged and implicitly sexualized concept of Eternal emanational encounter, wherein discrete and integral individuals meet in a process of "mutual interchange," "comingl [ing]" ecstatically "from the Head even to the Feet" (see J 88: 3-11, E246; 69: 43, E223).

    Gender, Environment, and Imperialism in William Blake's _Visions of the Daughters of Albion_ 2001

  • 3 The emanational or reincarnated body has many different terms in Tibetan such as lama, tulku, yangsi, kyetul, latul etc.

    Phayul Latest News 2009

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