Death and the Afterlife in Japanese Buddhism / / ed. by Mariko Namba Walter, Jacqueline I. Stone.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Blum, Mark L.,; Covell, Stephen G.,; Glassman, Hank,; Horton, Sarah Johanna,; Ruppert, Brian O.,; Tanabe, George J.,; Walter, Mariko Namba,; Williams, Duncan Ryūken,
• HerausgeberIn: Stone, Jacqueline I.,; Walter, Mariko Namba,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.) :; 3 illus.

For more than a thousand years, Buddhism has dominated Japanese death rituals and concepts of the afterlife. The nine essays in this volume, ranging chronologically from the tenth century to the present, bring to light both continuity and change in death practices over time. They also explore the in...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. Mukaekō Practice for the Deathbed
• 2. With the Help of ''Good Friends'' Deathbed Ritual Practices in Early Medieval Japan
• 3. Beyond Death and the Afterlife Considering Relic Veneration in Medieval Japan
• 4. Collective Suicide at the Funeral of Jitsunyo Mimesis or Solidarity?
• 5. At the Crossroads of Birth and Death The Blood Pool Hell and Postmortem Fetal Extraction
• 6. Funerary Zen Sōtō Zen Death Management in Tokugawa Japan
• 7. The Structure of Japanese Buddhist Funerals
• 8. The Price of Naming the Dead Posthumous Precept Names and Critiques of Contemporary Japanese Buddhism
• 9. The Orthodox Heresy of Buddhist Funerals
• Glossary of Chinese and Japanese Characters
• Contributors
• Index