Both Like and Unlike: Rebirth, Olfaction, and the Transspecies Imagination in Modern Chinese Buddhism
This essay considers the importance of the transspecies imagination for moral cultivation in contemporary Chinese Buddhism. Drawing on scriptural, theoretical, and fieldwork-based ethnographic data, it argues that olfaction-often considered the most "animalistic" of the human senses-is uni...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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MDPI
[2019]
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Religions
Year: 2019, Volume: 10, Issue: 6, Pages: 1-16 |
| Further subjects: | B
Rebirth
B Buddhism B Animals B Cosmology B olfaction B anthropology of the senses B Buddhist ethics B Vegetarianism |
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