Burning for the Buddha self-immolation in Chinese Buddhism /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Benn, James A., 1964-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2007.
Series:Studies in East Asian Buddhism ; no. 19.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • "Mounting the smoke with glittering colors": self-immolation in early medieval China
  • The Lotus Sūtra, auto-cremation, and the indestructible tongue
  • Saṃgha and the state: the power(s) of self-immolation
  • Is self-immolation a "good practice"? Yongming Yanshou on relinquishing the body
  • Local heroes in a fragmenting empire: self-immolation in the late Tang and five dynasties
  • One thousand years of self-immolation
  • Conclusion.