Burning for the Buddha self-immolation in Chinese Buddhism /
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | anglais |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawai'i Press,
c2007.
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| Collection: | Studies in East Asian Buddhism ;
no. 19. |
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| Accès en ligne: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Table des matières:
- 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.