The Buddhist dead practices, discourses, representations /

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Corporate Authors: Kuroda Institute, ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Cuevas, Bryan J., 1967-, Stone, Jacqueline Ilyse
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2007.
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.