Living Karma : the Religious Practices of Ouyi Zhixu.
Material type: TextSeries: Sheng Yen Series in Chinese BuddhismPublication details: New York : Columbia University Press, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (241 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780231537773
- 0231537778
- Zhixu, 1599-1655
- Zhixu, 1599-1655
- Karma
- Spiritual life -- Buddhism
- Buddhist literature, Chinese -- History and criticism
- Buddhist literature, Chinese -- History and criticism
- Karma
- Spiritual life -- Buddhism
- Spiritual life
- Zhixu, 1599-1655
- RELIGION -- Comparative Religion
- RELIGION -- Monasticism
- Buddhist literature, Chinese
- Karma
- Spiritual life -- Buddhism
- 294.3 294.3/92092
- BQ4435
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ouyi Zhixu 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.
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