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The Buddhist dead : practices, discourses, representations
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The Buddhist dead : practices, discourses, representations

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"A Kuroda Institute book."

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 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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