The Buddhist dead : practices, discourses, representations / edited by Bryan J. Cuevas and Jacqueline I. Stone.
Series: Studies in East Asian Buddhism ; no. 20.Publication details: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2007.Description: x, 491 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0824830318 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780824830311 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0824835999
- 9780824835996
- 294.3/423 22
- BQ4487 .B82 2007
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The Anton Library of Chinese Studies General Stacks | BQ4487 .B82 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | "A Kuroda Institute book." | TBC00000856 |
"A Kuroda Institute book."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
In its teachings, practices and institutions, Buddhism in iys varied Asian forms is centrally concerned with death and the dead. This title offers a comparative investigation of this topic across the major Buddhist cultures of India, Sri Lanka, China, Japan, Tibet and Burma.
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