Living karma : the religious practices of Ouyi Zhixu /

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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 att...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: McGuire, Beverley Foulks
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2014]
Series:Sheng Yen series in Chinese Buddhist studies.
Subjects:
Zhixu, > 1599-1655.
Karma.
Spiritual life > Buddhism.
Buddhist literature, Chinese > History and criticism.
Vie spirituelle > Bouddhisme.
Littérature bouddhique chinoise > Histoire et critique.
RELIGION > Comparative Religion.
RELIGION > Monasticism.
Buddhist literature, Chinese.
Electronic book.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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