Work Classification Layer
Compare Works
Pick two or more works to set their attribute fingerprints, dimension-by-dimension passages, and shared school embodiments side by side. Especially useful for author-stage comparisons (Wittgenstein early vs late) and for setting a single tradition's foundational texts against each other.
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
Pema Chödrön's 1997 foundational contemporary American Tibetan Buddhist teaching on suffering and openness
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (Late) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Non-Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Infinite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | Flat |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Local |
| Matter · Extent | Infinite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Plural |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Partial |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Both |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | None |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Experience |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Infinite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Irreversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Continuous |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
The temporal time of suffering and impermanence.
Space
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
The space of meditative openness.
Matter
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
The embodied suffering person.
Observer
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
The person remaining with experience.
Energy
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
Energies of meditative openness.
Information
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
Contemporary American Buddhist practical framework.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Pema Chödrön foundational for American contemporary Buddhist practice and women's leadership in Western Buddhism.