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Living Karma : The Religious Practices of Ouyi Zhixu / Beverley McGuire.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Sheng Yen Series in Chinese Buddhist StudiesPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (240 p.) : 6 illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231168021
  • 9780231537773
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 294.3 23
LOC classification:
  • BQ4435 .M43 2014
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Karma as a Narrative Device in Ouyi's Autobiography -- 2. Divination as a Karmic Diagnostic -- 3. Repentance Rituals for Eliminating Karma -- 4. Vowing to Assume the Karma of Others -- 5. Slicing, Burning, and Blood Writing -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1. A Translation of Ouyi's Autobiography -- Appendix 2. A Map of Ouyi's Life -- Glossary of Terms, People, Places, and Titles of Texts -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: 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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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Karma as a Narrative Device in Ouyi's Autobiography -- 2. Divination as a Karmic Diagnostic -- 3. Repentance Rituals for Eliminating Karma -- 4. Vowing to Assume the Karma of Others -- 5. Slicing, Burning, and Blood Writing -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1. A Translation of Ouyi's Autobiography -- Appendix 2. A Map of Ouyi's Life -- Glossary of Terms, People, Places, and Titles of Texts -- Bibliography -- Index

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)