Lessons from the Sanjie: merit economies as catalysts for social change

When considering questions of Buddhism, business and the economy, the production and transfer of karmic merit is an often-overlooked resource, perhaps due to the unexamined assumption that merit is not, after all, ‘real.’ This essay aims to show that taking merit production seriously reveals a well-...

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Main Author: Kalmanson, Leah (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: 2019
In: Studies in Chinese Religions
Year: 2019, Volume: 5, Issue: 2, Pages: 142-150
Further subjects:B money economies
B Xinxing (540–594)
B Sanjie movement
B merit economies
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)