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Right thoughts at the last moment : Buddhism and deathbed practices in early medieval Japan /

Buddhists across Asia have often aspired to die with a clear and focused mind, as the historical Buddha himself is said to have done. This book explores how the ideal of dying with right mindfulness was appropriated, disseminated, and transformed in premodern Japan, focusing on the late tenth throug...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stone, Jacqueline Ilyse (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2016]
Colección:Studies in East Asian Buddhism ; no. 26.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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