The Buddhist dead : practices, discourses, representations / edited by Bryan J. Cuevas and Jacqueline I. Stone.
2007
BQ4487 .B82 2007eb
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Title
The Buddhist dead : practices, discourses, representations / edited by Bryan J. Cuevas and Jacqueline I. Stone.
ISBN
9781435666184 (electronic bk.)
1435666186 (electronic bk.)
9780824860165 (electronic bk.)
0824860160 (electronic bk.)
0824830318 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780824830311 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
1435666186 (electronic bk.)
9780824860165 (electronic bk.)
0824860160 (electronic bk.)
0824830318 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780824830311 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
Imprint
Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, ©2007.
Language
English
Language Note
English.
Description
1 online resource (x, 491 pages) : illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1515/9780824860165 doi
Call Number
BQ4487 .B82 2007eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)256728783
Summary
In its teachings, practices, and institutions, Buddhism in its varied Asian forms has been--and continues to be--centrally concerned with death and the dead. Yet surprisingly "death in Buddhism" has received little sustained scholarly attention. The Buddhist Dead offers the first comparative investigation of this topic across the major Buddhist cultures of India, Sri Lanka, China, Japan, Tibet, and Burma. Its individual essays, representing a range of methods, shed light on a rich array of traditional Buddhist practices for the dead and dying; the sophisticated but often paradoxical discourses about death and the dead in Buddhist texts; and the varied representations of the dead and the afterlife found in Buddhist funerary art and popular literature. This important collection moves beyond the largely text--and doctrine--centered approaches characterizing an earlier generation of Buddhist scholarship and expands its treatment of death to include ritual, devotional, and material culture. Contributors: James A. Benn, Raoul Birnbaum, Jason A. Carbine, Bryan J. Cuevas, Hank Glassman, John Clifford Holt, Matthew T. Kapstein, D. Max Moerman, Mark Rowe, Kurtis R. Schaeffer, Gregory Schopen, Koichi Shinohara, Jacqueline I. Stone, John S. Strong.13 illus
Note
"A Kuroda Institute book."
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
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.
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.
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Studies in East Asian Buddhism ; no. 20.
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Print version: Buddhist dead. Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, ©2007
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