About the Numinose experience
I am currently studying religious studies at graduate school in Spain.
Shamefully, I hadn't really thought about Buddhism when I lived in Japan, but now that I'm overseas, I've realized once again that Japan is a Buddhist country, and that it has created many wonderful cultures, and languages, ideas, etc. associated with it.
So, I'm currently doing full-scale research on Buddhism in Spain, but there are things I don't understand in books about Buddhism in Spain, so I have a question I definitely want the monks to answer.
Rudolf Otto, a German religious scholar, expressed with the word “numinose,” a mysterious experience/mystical experience (?) that cannot be expressed in words and cannot be experienced by others I would like you to tell me exactly what it is.
If you express it in Japanese, I think it's probably an “observation experience.” Rudolf Otto also said in his book “The Sacred Thing” that the lips of those who experienced it will be tightly closed when it comes to the content of this experience, but now that I am studying Buddhism, I really want to know what this experience is like.
If you can't explain it in depth in words, you can really just use keywords, so I'd like you to tell me what they are.
This may be a difficult question, but thank you.
