Divining Karma in Chinese Buddhism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4299855 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brian Mcguire (0000-0002-4133-5830, University of North Carolina Wilmington, corresponding author), Beverley Foulks Mcguire |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Pages | 413-422 |
| Publication date | 2013-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religion Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-8171 • E-ISSN: 1749-8171 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/rec3.12068 |
| OpenAlex | W1949126144 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 20 |
Divination has been a pervasive phenomenon throughout Chinese history, but scholars have tended to focus on indigenous divination practices and overlook Chinese Buddhist ones. Scholars that have attended to Chinese Buddhist divination have largely debated the extent to which it derived from indigenous Chinese or Indian sources. This article advocates a different approach for future studies - one that focuses on the way in which practitioners of divination viewed themselves, their divinatory practices, and their reasons for practicing divination. It illustrates this method with a case study of an eminent Chinese Buddhist monk named Ouyi Zhixu (1599-1655), who viewed divination as a diagnostic tool to determine his karma and prescribed repentance rituals for redressing such karma
Buddhism · Divination · Indigenous · Karma · Theology · Traditional medicine · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Indian and Buddhist Studies · Japanese History and Culture · Medicine · Philosophy · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |