The Buddhist Dead : : Practices, Discourses, Representations / / ed. by Jacqueline I. Stone, Bryan J. Cuevas.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Benn, James A.,; Birnbaum, Raoul,; Carbine, Jason A.,; Cuevas, Bryan J.,; Glassman, Hank,; Holt, John Clifford,; Kapstein, Matthew T.,; Moerman, D. Max,; Rowe, Mark,; Schaeffer, Kurtis R.,; Schopen, Gregory,; Shinohara, Koichi,; Stone, Jacqueline I.,; Strong, John S.,
• HerausgeberIn: Cuevas, Bryan J.,; Stone, Jacqueline I.,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2007]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism ; 35
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (528 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Buddha's Funeral -- 2. Cross-Dressing with the Dead -- 3. The Moment of Death in Daoxuan's Vinaya Commentary -- 4. The Secret Art of Dying -- 5. The Deathbed Image of Master Hongyi -- 6. Dying Like Milarépa -- 7. Fire and the Sword -- 8. Passage to Fudaraku -- 9. The Death and Return of Lady Wangzin -- 10. Gone but Not Departed -- 11. Mulian in the Land of Snows and King Gesar in Hell -- 12. Chinese Buddhist Death Ritual and the Transformation of Japanese Kinship -- 13. Grave Changes -- 14. Care for Buddhism -- Chinese and Korean Character Glossary -- Japanese Character Glossary -- Contributors -- Index