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Filial piety — Buddhists' way in East Asia
Author(s)	Kyu-taik Sung
Journal title	Journal of Religious Gerontology, vol 14, no 4, 2003
Pages	pp 95-111
Source	Haworth Document Delivery Center, The Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580, USA.
Keywords	Buddhism ; Family relationships ; Mother ; Children [offspring] ; Far East.
Annotation	This article introduces the Buddhist way of practising filial piety - repaying mothers' kindness - along with a Buddhist sutra, the Sutra about the Deep Kindness of parents and the Difficulty of Repaying it. This sutra has been widely recited, upheld, and is endeared by East Asian people. The sutra became a vehicle that helped Buddhism assimilate with the indigenous cultural tradition of China. It contains discourses about the ten types of the kindness of a mother bestows on her child, difficulties of repaying kindness, the grave consequences of being unfilial toward parents, and how to repay kindness. The historical background of Buddhists' assimilation with the Chinese cultural system, and similarities between Confucians and Buddhists in the practice of filial piety are discussed. (KJ/RH).
Accession Number	CPA-031007205 A
Classmark	TUP: DS:SJ: SRM: SS: 7D
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