ISBN:
9780824835996
,
0824830318
,
9780824830311
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 491 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
,
23 cm
Series Statement:
Studies in East Asian Buddhism 20
Series Statement:
A Kuroda Institute book
Series Statement:
Studies in East Asian buddhism
DDC:
294.3423
Keywords:
Death Religious aspects
;
Buddhism
;
Buddhism Customs and practices
;
Konferenzschrift
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Buddhismus
;
Tod
;
Sterben
;
Ritual
;
Buddhismus
;
Tod
;
Brauch
;
Buddhismus
;
Totenkult
;
Buddhismus
;
Sterben
Description / Table of 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 Benn -- Passage to fudaraku : suicide and salvation in premodern Japanese Buddhism / 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 : Chinese traditions of Maudgalyyana and their Tibetan legacy / 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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0619/2006027683.html
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