Cross-Tradition Map
Convergence is evidence.
Divergence is too.
Twenty-six themes where twelve independent traditions, developed across millennia and continents under different cosmologies, arrive at the same concern. That convergence is not coincidence — it's a signal worth attending to. Not proof, but evidence.
Thirteen tensions where the same traditions diverge on something each considers load-bearing. That divergence is evidence, too — that some questions have no settled answer, that smoothing them would falsify the data.
And thirty-two untranslatable jewels — terms each tradition preserves in native form because the meaning doesn't survive translation. Hesed. Anatta. Wu wei. Ren. Ahimsa.
26 themes × 12 traditions
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26 themes
Convergence
Where the traditions arrive at the same concern. Claim shared; warrant often not. The matrix preserves the distinction.
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13 tensions
Divergence
Where the traditions disagree on something each considers decisive. Held, not smoothed.
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~32 terms
Jewels
Untranslatable terms each tradition preserves in native form. Small, faceted, containing more than they appear to.
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