The Buddhist dead: practices, discourses, representations
edited by Bryan J. Cuevas and Jacqueline I. Stone
The Buddhist dead: practices, discourses, representations
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edited by Bryan J. Cuevas and Jacqueline I. StonePublisher
University of Hawai'i PressEdition 1
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Title and Author
The Buddhist dead: practices, discourses, representations / edited by Bryan J. Cuevas and Jacqueline I. StonePublication Details
هونولولو : University of Hawai'i Press، 2007مPhysical Description
x, 491 p.: ill.; 24 cm.Subject
Death Religious aspects BuddhismBuddhism Customs and practices
series
(Studies in East Asian Buddhism؛ 20)Language
انگلیسی"A Kuroda Institute book.".
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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 Milarepa : 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