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  • Vera Constantineau on the Haibun Form & Finding Poetry in Buddhism's 108 Defilements
    Vera Constantineau on the Haibun Form & Finding Poetry in Buddhism's 108 Defilements
    April 05, 2023

    Vera Constantineau on the Haibun Form & Finding Poetry in Buddhism's 108 Defilements

    While Catholicism has its seven deadly sins, Buddhism gets a lot more specific, with a whopping 108 temptations that practitioners seek to avoid. Alternatively translated as impurities, vexations, or ...

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