The Buddhist dead : practices, discourses, representations /

In its teachings, practices, and institutions, Buddhism in its varied Asian forms has been--and continues to be--centrally concerned with death and the dead. Yet surprisingly "death in Buddhism" has received little sustained scholarly attention. The Buddhist Dead offers the first comparati...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Kuroda Institute
Otros Autores: Cuevas, Bryan J., 1967-, Stone, Jacqueline Ilyse
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, ©2007.
Colección:Studies in East Asian Buddhism ; no. 20.
Temas:
Death > Religious aspects > Buddhism.
Buddhism > Customs and practices.
Bouddhisme > Coutumes et pratiques.
RELIGION > Buddhism > General.
RELIGION > Buddhism > Rituals & Practice.
Buddhism > Customs and practices
Death > Religious aspects > Buddhism
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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