Living Karma: The Religious Practices of Ouyi Zhixu

McGuire, Beverley (著)

著者

McGuire, Beverley (著)

出版年月日

2014.08.26

ページ

240

出版者

Columbia University Press

出版サイト

https://cup.columbia.edu/

出版地

New York, NY, US [紐約, 紐約州, 美國]

資料の種類

書籍=Book

言語

英文=English

キーワード

Ouyi Zhixu=蕅益智旭; Chinese Buddhist monk; karma; divination; repentance; ascetic acts; burning; blood writing; Chinese Buddhism

抄録

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, this text 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.

Front Matter
Copyright Page
Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
One Karma as a Narrative Device in Ouyi’s Autobiography
Two Divination as a Karmic Diagnostic
Three Repentance Rituals for Eliminating Karma
Four Vowing to Assume the Karma of Others
Five Slicing, Burning, and Blood Writing: Karmic Transformations of Bodies
Conclusion
End Matter
Appendix 1 A Translation of Ouyi’s Autobiography
Appendix 2 A Map of Ouyi’s Life
Notes
Glossary of Terms, People, Places, and Titles of Texts
Bibliography
Index

ISBN

9780231537773; 9780231168021

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7312/columbia/9780231168021.001.0001

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