Living Karma: The Religious Practices of Ouyi Zhixu - Couverture rigide

McGuire, Beverley Foulks

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0231168020 ISBN 13 : 9780231168021

Editeur : Columbia University Press, 2014

Synopsis

Ouyi Zhixu (1599-1655) was an eminent Chinese Buddhist monk who, contrary to his contemporaries, believed karma could be changed. Through vows, divination, repentance rituals, and ascetic acts such as burning and blood writing, he sought to alter what others understood as inevitable and inescapable. Drawing attention to Ouyi's unique reshaping of religious practice, Living Karma reasserts the significance of an overlooked individual in the modern development of Chinese Buddhism.

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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À propos de l'auteur

Beverley Foulks McGuire is professor of East Asian religions at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University and her M.Div. from Harvard Divinity School. Her academic research focuses on Chinese religions, Buddhism, and comparative religious ethics.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Columbia University Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0231168020
• ISBN 13: 9780231168021
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240
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