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...

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