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Women and Animals: Culinary Dilemmas and Karmic Entanglement

FedEx Global Education Center, Room 1009 301 Pittsboro St., Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Late sixteenth-century China witnessed a surge in the popularity of the Buddhist practice of buying animals and then setting them free. Releasing life, as it was called, could be practiced informally or as part of highly elaborate releasing-life ceremonies organized … Read more

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