1.

Record Nr.

UNISOBSOBE00025052

Titolo

3: Vita di Cipriano Vita di Ambrogio Vita di Agostino / introduzione di Christine Mohrmann ; testo critico e commento a cura di A. A. R. Bastiaensen ; traduzioni di Luca Canali e Carlo Carena

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano : Fond.ne L. Valla : Mondadori, 1981

Descrizione fisica

LXIII, 451 p. ; 20 cm

Collana

Scrittori greci e latini

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Con testo orig. a fronte

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459844503321

Autore

McGuire Beverley Foulks

Titolo

Living karma : the religious practices of Ouyi Zhixu / / Beverley Foulks McGuire

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Columbia University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-231-53777-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

Sheng Yen Series in Chinese Buddhism Studies

Disciplina

294.3/92092

Soggetti

Karma

Spiritual life - Buddhism

Buddhist literature, Chinese - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- 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

Sommario/riassunto

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.