Death and the afterlife in Japanese Buddhism

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Stone, Jacqueline Ilyse, Walter, Mariko Namba
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, c2008.
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Table of Contents:
  • Mukaekō : practice for the deathbed / Sarah Johanna Horton
  • With the help of "good friends" : deathbed ritual practices in early medieval Japan / Jacqueline I. Stone
  • Beyond death and the afterlife : considering relic veneration in medieval Japan / Brian O. Ruppert
  • Collective suicide at the funeral of Jitsunyo : mimesis or solidarity / Mark L. Blum
  • At the crossroads of birth and death : the blood pool hell and postmortem fetal extraction / Hank Glassman
  • Funerary Zen : Sōtō Zen death management in Tokugawa Japan / Duncan Ryūken Williams
  • The structure of Japanese Buddhist funerals / Mariko Namba Walter
  • The price of naming the deat : posthumous precept names and critiques of contemporary Japanese Buddhism / Stephen G. Covell
  • The orthodox heresy of Buddhist funerals / George J. Tanabe Jr.