Nine stages of decay
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Nine stages of decay
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kusōzu The contemplation of the nine stages of a decaying corpse is a Buddhist meditational practice in which the practitioner imagines or observes the gradual decomposition of a dead body. Along with paṭikūlamanasikāra, this type of meditation is one of the two meditations on "the foul" or "unattractive" (aśubha). The nine stages later became a popular subject of Buddhist art and poetry. In Japan, images of the stages are called kusōzu and became related to aesthetic ideas of impermanence. Earl
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Buddhist meditation of a decaying corpse
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_stages_of_decay
date created:
2022-11-07T20:14:13Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T19:58:13Z
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