The Buddhist Dead: Practices, Discourses, Representations

Published by University of Hawaii Press 2007

The Buddhist Dead

Practices, Discourses, Representations

Edited by: Bryan J. Cuevas and Jacqueline I. Stone

Volume 20 in the series Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824860165

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Stone Jacqueline I. :

Jacqueline I. Stone is professor of religion at Princeton University.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Bryan J. Cuevas and Jacqueline I. Stone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. The Buddha’s Funeral John S. Strong Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	32
2. Cross-Dressing with the Dead Asceticism, Ambivalence, and Institutional Values in an Indian Monastic Code Gregory Schopen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	60
3. The Moment of Death in Daoxuan’s Vinaya Commentary Koichi Shinohara Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
4. The Secret Art of Dying Esoteric Deathbed Practices in Heian Japan Jacqueline I. Stone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
5. The Deathbed Image of Master Hongyi Raoul Birnbaum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
6. Dying Like Milarépa Death Accounts in a Tibetan Hagiographic Tradition Kurtis R. Schaeffer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	208
7. Fire and the Sword Some Connections between Self-Immolation and Religious Persecution in the History of Chinese Buddhism James A. Benn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	234
8. Passage to Fudaraku Suicide and Salvation in Premodern Japanese Buddhism D. Max Moerman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	266
9. The Death and Return of Lady Wangzin Visions of the Afterlife in Tibetan Buddhist Popular Literature Bryan J. Cuevas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
10. Gone but Not Departed The Dead among the Living in Contemporary Buddhist Sri Lanka John Clifford Holt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	326
11. Mulian in the Land of Snows and King Gesar in Hell A Chinese Tale of Parental Death in Its Tibetan Transformations Matthew T. Kapstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	345
12. Chinese Buddhist Death Ritual and the Transformation of Japanese Kinship Hank Glassman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	378
13. Grave Changes Scattering Ashes in Contemporary Japan Mark Rowe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	405
14. Care for Buddhism Text, Ceremony, and Religious Emotion in a Monk’s Final Journey Jason A. Carbine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	438
Chinese and Korean Character Glossary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	457
Japanese Character Glossary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	461
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	467
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	471

Language: English
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 504

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Published: April 30, 2007
ISBN: 9780824860165