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Sins and Sinners: Perspectives from Asian Religions

Sins and Sinners: Perspectives from Asian Religions

Granoff, Phyllis
Shinohara, Koichi

Paperback

Comparative ReligionReligion General Buddhism

ISBN10: 9004229469
ISBN13: 9789004229464
Publisher: Brill
Published: Aug 17 2012
Pages: 388
Weight: 1.35
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
Asian religious traditions have always been deeply concerned with sins and what to do about them. As the essays in this volume illustrate, what Buddhists in Tibet, India, China or Japan, what Jains, Daoists, Hindus or Sikhs considered to be a sin was neither one thing, nor exactly what the Abrahamic traditions meant by the term. Sinscould be both undesireable behavior and unacceptable thoughts. In different contexts, at different times and places, a sin might be a ritual infraction or a violation of a rule of law; it could be a moral failing or a wrong belief. However defined, sins were considered so grave a hindrance to spiritual perfection, so profound a threat to the social order, that the search for their remedies through rituals of expiation, pilgrimage, confession, recitation of spells, or philosophical reflection, was one of the central quests of the religions studied here.

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