The Buddhist dead practices, discourses, representations /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawai'i Press,
c2007.
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| Series: | Studies in East Asian Buddhism ;
no. 20. |
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Table of Contents:
- The Buddha's funeral / John S. Strong
- Cross-dressing with the dead : asceticism, ambivalence, and institutional values in an Indian monastic code / Gregory Schopen
- The moment of death in Daoxuan's vinaya commentary / Koichi Shinohara
- The secret art of dying : esoteric deathbed practices in Heian Japan / Jacqueline I. Stone
- The deathbed image of Master Hongyi / Raoul Birnbaum
- Dying like Milarépa : death accounts in a Tibetan hagiographic tradition / Kurtis R. Schaeffer
- Fire and the sword : some connections between self-immolation and religious persecution in the history of Chinese Buddhism / James A. Benn
- Passage to fudaraku : suicide and salvation in premodern Japanese Buddhism / D. Max Moerman
- The death and return of Lady Wangzin : visions of the afterlife in Tibetan Buddhist popular literature / Bryan J. Cuevas
- Gone but not departed : the dead among the living in contemporary Buddhist Sri Lanka / John Clifford Holt
- Mulian in the land of snows and King Gesar in hell : a Chinese tale of parental death in its Tibetan transformations / Matthew T. Kapstein
- Chinese Buddhist death ritual and the transformation of Japanese kinship / Hank Glassmann
- Grave changes : scattering ashes in contemporary Japan / Mark Rowe
- Care for Buddhism : text, ceremony, and religious emotion in a monk's final journey / Jason A. Carbine.