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The Buddhist dead practices, discourses, representations
Title
The Buddhist dead [electronic resource] : practices, discourses, representations / edited by Bryan J. Cuevas and Jacqueline I. Stone.
ISBN
9780824860165
0824830318 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780824830311 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2007. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012)
Physical Description
1 online resource (x, 491 p. :) ill. ;
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
"A Kuroda Institute book."
Description based on print version record.
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Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - UPCC 2012 Archival Complete Foundation Collection
Project MUSE - UPCC 2012 Books Archival Subscription Plan
Project MUSE - UPCC 2012 Philosophy and Religion Foundation Collection
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 13, 2012
Bibliography
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.
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