LEADER 03722nam 2200673 450 001 9910813700603321 005 20210513203558.0 010 $a0-231-53777-8 024 7 $a10.7312/mcgu16802 035 $a(CKB)3710000000238112 035 $a(EBL)1785219 035 $a(OCoLC)890982198 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001333297 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11716220 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001333297 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11385752 035 $a(PQKB)10027263 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001076009 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1785219 035 $a(DE-B1597)458433 035 $a(OCoLC)979739583 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231537773 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1785219 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10929243 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL668650 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000238112 100 $a20140918h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLiving karma $ethe religious practices of Ouyi Zhixu /$fBeverley Foulks McGuire 210 1$aNew York :$cColumbia University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (241 p.) 225 1 $aSheng Yen Series in Chinese Buddhism Studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a1-322-37368-X 311 0 $a0-231-16802-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. Karma as a Narrative Device in Ouyi's Autobiography --$t2. Divination as a Karmic Diagnostic --$t3. Repentance Rituals for Eliminating Karma --$t4. Vowing to Assume the Karma of Others --$t5. Slicing, Burning, and Blood Writing --$tConclusion --$tAppendix 1. A Translation of Ouyi's Autobiography --$tAppendix 2. A Map of Ouyi's Life --$tGlossary of Terms, People, Places, and Titles of Texts --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aOuyi Zhixu (1599-1655) was an eminent Chinese Buddhist monk who, contrary to his contemporaries, believed karma could be changed. Through vows, divination, repentance rituals, and ascetic acts such as burning and blood writing, he sought to alter what others understood as inevitable and inescapable. Drawing attention to Ouyi's unique reshaping of religious practice, Living Karma reasserts the significance of an overlooked individual in the modern development of Chinese Buddhism. While Buddhist studies scholarship tends to privilege textual analysis, Living Karma promotes a balanced study of ritual practice and writing, treating Ouyi's texts as ritual objects and his reading and writing as religious acts. Each chapter addresses a specific religious practice-writing, divination, repentance, vows, and bodily rituals-offering first a diachronic overview of each practice within the history of Chinese Buddhism and then a synchronic analysis of each phenomenon through close readings of Ouyi's work. This book sheds much-needed light on a little-known figure and his representation of karma, which proved to be a seminal innovation in the religious thought of late imperial China. 410 0$aSheng Yen series in Chinese Buddhist studies. 606 $aKarma 606 $aSpiritual life$xBuddhism 606 $aBuddhist literature, Chinese$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aKarma. 615 0$aSpiritual life$xBuddhism. 615 0$aBuddhist literature, Chinese$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a294.3/92092 700 $aMcGuire$b Beverley Foulks$01653948 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910813700603321 996 $aLiving karma$94005492 997 $aUNINA