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| Both Like and Unlike: Rebirth, Olfaction, and the Transspecies Imagination in Modern Chinese Buddhism | ||
| 作者 | Verchery, Lina (著) |
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| 出處題名 | Religions |
| 卷期 | v.10 n.6 |
| 出版日期 | 2019.06 |
| 出版者 | MDIP |
| 出版者網址 | https://www.mdpi.com/ |
| 出版地 | Basel, Switzerland [巴塞爾, 瑞士] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 關鍵詞 | Buddhism; animals; Buddhist ethics; anthropology of the senses; olfaction; cosmology; rebirth; vegetarianism |
| 摘要 | 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 uniquely efficacious for inspiring imaginative processes whereby Buddhists train themselves to inhabit the perspectives of non-human beings. In light of Buddhist theories of rebirth, this means extending human-like status to animals and recognizing the “animal” within the human as well. Responding to recent trends in the Humanities calling for an expanded notion of ontological continuity between the human and non-human—notably inspired by critical animal studies, post-humanism, the new materialism, and the “ontological turn”—this essay contends that Buddhist cosmological ideas, like those that demand the cultivation of the transspecies imagination, present resources for moral reflection that can challenge and enrich current mainstream thinking about humanity’s relation to the nonhuman world. |
| 目次 | 1. Introduction 2. The “Dorsal Turn” and Modern Hierarchies of Sense 3. Transgressive Olfaction: Boundaries of Matter, Space, and Body 4. The Agency of Olfaction: Moral Worlds of Smell 5. Karmic Continuities: Smell as Temporal Mediator 6. Cosmological Conclusions: Who Are Animals? |
| ISSN | 20771444 (E) |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel10060364 |
| 點閱次數 | 85 |
| 建檔日期 | 2021.11.12 |
| 更新日期 | 2023.06.19 |
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