The Buddhist dead: practices, discourses, representation edited by Bryan J. Cuevas and Jacqueline I. Stone.
Series: Studies in East Asian Buddhism ; no. 20.Publication details: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2007Description: x, 491 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9788120834248Subject(s): Death -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism | Buddhism -- Customs and practicesDDC classification: 294.3423 LOC classification: BQ4487 | .B82 2007Online resources: Table of contents onlyItem type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Books | Nalanda University Scholarship on Buddhism | School of Buddhist Studies, Philosophy and Comparative Religions | 294.3423 C8949 (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | 007562 |
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294.3422 H3637 The forerunner of all things:Buddaghosa on mind,Intention and Agency | 294.3423 C696 Nirvana and other Buddhist felicities: utopias of the Pali imaginaire | 294.3423 C696 Nirvana: concept, imagery, narrative | 294.3423 C8949 The Buddhist dead: practices, discourses, representation | 294.34237 Z698 Death and reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism: in-between bodies | 294.343 Ah44 Buddha Gaya: through the ages | 294.34350954123 T7293 The revival of Buddhist Pilgrimage at Bodh Gaya |
"A Kuroda Institute book."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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