Comparative mysticism sets, for example, Eckhart beside Śaṅkara, as Rudolf Otto did in Mysticism East and West (1926), or Sufi and Buddhist accounts of the self side by side. Its method raises hard questions: how far translation distorts, whether like words mean like things, and whether experience can be separated from interpretation.
Comparative Mysticism
The study of mystical writings and experiences across traditions, their likenesses and differences.