Death and the afterlife in Japanese Buddhism
edited by Jacqueline I. Stone and Mariko Namba Walter
Death and the afterlife in Japanese Buddhism
Author
edited by Jacqueline I. Stone and Mariko Namba WalterPublisher
University of Hawaii PressEdition 1
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Title and Author
Death and the afterlife in Japanese Buddhism / edited by Jacqueline I. Stone and Mariko Namba WalterPublication Details
هونولولو : University of Hawaii Press، 2009مPhysical Description
x, 382 p.: ill.; 24 cm.Subject
Buddhist funeral rites and ceremonies -- JapanFuture life Buddhism
Language
انگلیسیIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Mukaeko : practice for the deathbed / Sarah Johanna Horton -- With the help of "good friends" : deathbed ritual practices in early medieval Japan / Jacqueline I. Stone -- Beyond death and the afterlife : considering relic veneration in medieval Japan / Brian O. Ruppert -- Collective suicide at the funeral of Jitsunyo : mimesis or solidarity / Mark L. Blum -- At the crossroads of birth and death : the blood pool hell and postmortem fetal extraction / Hank Glassman -- Funerary Zen : Soto Zen death management in Tokugawa Japan / Duncan Ryuken Williams -- The structure of Japanese Buddhist funerals / Mariko Namba Walter -- The price of naming the deat : posthumous precept names and critiques of contemporary Japanese Buddhism / Stephen G. Covell -- The orthodox heresy of Buddhist funerals / George J. Tanabe Jr