Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 460 g
Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 460 g
Reihe: The Sheng Yen Series in Chinese Buddhist Studies
ISBN: 978-0-231-16802-1
Verlag: Columbia University Press
While Buddhist studies scholarship tends to privilege textual analysis, Living Karma promotes a balanced study of ritual practice and writing, treating Ouyi's texts as ritual objects and his reading and writing as religious acts. Each chapter addresses a specific religious practice writing, divination, repentance, vows, and bodily rituals offering first a diachronic overview of each practice within the history of Chinese Buddhism and then a synchronic analysis of each phenomenon through close readings of Ouyi's work. This book sheds much-needed light on a little-known figure and his representation of karma, which proved to be a seminal innovation in the religious thought of late imperial China.
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IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Karma as a Narrative Device in Ouyi's Autobiography2. Divination as a Karmic Diagnostic3. Repentance Rituals for Eliminating Karma4. Vowing to Assume the Karma of Others5. Slicing, Burning, and Blood Writing: Karmic Transformations of BodiesConclusionAppendix 1. A Translation of Ouyi's AutobiographyAppendix 2. A Map of Ouyi's LifeNotesGlossary of Terms, People, Places, and Titles of TextsBibliographyIndex
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