Many of Genshin’s sinners are served with poetic justice. Certain sections of Genshin’s hell even seem somewhat self-serving (the Iron-Plane-Fox-Eating Place, for example, is set aside for “those who have burned the bedroom furniture of priests”). But one never feels in reading the Ojoyoshu that Genshin's own personal animosities had anything to do with the place in which sinners were assigned. In his deeply personal narrative Dante peoples the otherworld with people he calls by name, both fictional and historical, even assigning to the lower hells men of high authority in the church. With the exception of well known Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, Genshin does not give a single name. For Genshin, when human beings rise to the stages of existence above the human stage, or when they fall into hell, they cease to be human. In
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Hell -Part7
Many of Genshin’s sinners are served with poetic justice. Certain sections of Genshin’s hell even seem somewhat self-serving (the Iron-Plane-Fox-Eating Place, for example, is set aside for “those who have burned the bedroom furniture of priests”). But one never feels in reading the Ojoyoshu that Genshin's own personal animosities had anything to do with the place in which sinners were assigned. In his deeply personal narrative Dante peoples the otherworld with people he calls by name, both fictional and historical, even assigning to the lower hells men of high authority in the church. With the exception of well known Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, Genshin does not give a single name. For Genshin, when human beings rise to the stages of existence above the human stage, or when they fall into hell, they cease to be human. In
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