Abstract
Dr. Kuo Li-ying's study deals with a complex of beliefs and ritual practices that have come to play an extremely important role in Chinese Buddhism: the confession of sins and transgressions, both collective and individual, as a means to effect moral purity, to remove mental obstacles and to obtain positive karmic retribution. Confession et contrition shows some important lacunas: more attention should have been paid to the non-Buddhist Chinese cultural context; essential typological differences between certain kinds of ritual have sometimes been blurred, and hardly any use has been made of the essential documents preserved in the Guang hongming ji . Another point of criticism concerns the methodology and the way of presentation, which are almost purely philological: the very complicated subject is treated on the basis of individual texts, each of which is described and analyzed. Keywords: Chinese Buddhism; Confession et contrition ; Guang hongming ji ; karmic retribution; Kuo Li-ying
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