{"title":"Illness as Depicted in the Illustrated Legends of Kokawa Temple","authors":"Y. Satomi, J. Knott","doi":"10.7221/sjlc02.029.0","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Leafing through Buddhist scriptures, one finds not infrequent reference to the view that illness, ultimately, was merely the working out of karmic justice—the result of evil acts perpetrated over the course of one’s present-or past-life existence. For example, in the “Parables” chapter (Hiyu-hon 譬喩品) of the Sutra of the Lotus Flower of the Wonderful Law (“The Lotus Sutra”, Myōhō renge kyō 妙法蓮華経), one encounters the following explanation regarding the karmic relationship between illness and the sin of disrespecting sacred texts:","PeriodicalId":197397,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Japanese Literature and Culture","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Studies in Japanese Literature and Culture","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.7221/sjlc02.029.0","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Leafing through Buddhist scriptures, one finds not infrequent reference to the view that illness, ultimately, was merely the working out of karmic justice—the result of evil acts perpetrated over the course of one’s present-or past-life existence. For example, in the “Parables” chapter (Hiyu-hon 譬喩品) of the Sutra of the Lotus Flower of the Wonderful Law (“The Lotus Sutra”, Myōhō renge kyō 妙法蓮華経), one encounters the following explanation regarding the karmic relationship between illness and the sin of disrespecting sacred texts: