Buddhist funeral cultures of Southeast Asia and China /

"The centrality of death rituals has in anthropologically informed studies of Buddhism been little documented. The current volume brings together a range of perspectives on Buddhist death rituals including ethnographic, textual, historical and theoretically informed accounts, and presents the d...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Williams, Paul, 1950- (Editor ), Ladwig, Patrice (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Temas:
Buddhist funeral rites and ceremonies > Southeast Asia.
Buddhist funeral rites and ceremonies > China.
Funérailles > Rites et cérémonies bouddhiques > Asie du Sud-Est.
Funérailles > Rites et cérémonies bouddhiques > Chine.
RELIGION > Buddhism > General (see also PHILOSOPHY > Buddhist)
Buddhist funeral rites and ceremonies
China
Southeast Asia
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction: Buddhist funeral cultures / Patrice Ladwig and Paul Williams
  • 2. Chanting as 'bricolage technique': a comparison of South and Southeast Asian funeral recitation / Rita Langer
  • 3. Weaving life out of death: the craft of the rag robe in Cambodian ritual technology / Erik W. Davis
  • 4. Corpses and cloth: illustrations of the paṃsukũla ceremony in Thai manuscripts / M.L. Pattaratorn Chirapravati
  • 5. Good death, bad death and ritual restructurings: the New Year ceremonies of the Phunoy in northern Laos / Vanina Bouté
  • 6. Feeding the dead: ghosts, materiality and merit in a Lao Buddhist festival for the deceased / Patrice Ladwig
  • 7. Funeral rituals, bad death and the protection of social space among the Arakanese (Burma) / Alexandra de Mersan
  • 8. Theatre of death and rebirth: monks' funerals in Burma / François Robinne
  • 9. From bones to ashes: the Teochiu management of bad death in China and overseas / Bernard Formoso
  • 10. For Buddhas, families and ghosts: the transformation of the Ghost Festival into a Dharma assembly in southeast China / Ingmar Heise
  • 11. Xianghua foshi (incense and flower Buddhist rites): a local Buddhist funeral ritual tradition in southeastern China / Yik Fai Tam
  • 12. Buddhist passports to the other world: a study of modern and early medieval Chinese Buddhist mortuary documents / Frederick Shih-Chung Chen.

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