The Buddhist Dead: Practices, Discourses, RepresentationsBryan J. Cuevas, Jacqueline Ilyse Stone In its teachings, practices and institutions, Buddhism in iys varied Asian forms is centrally concerned with death and the dead. This title offers a comparative investigation of this topic across the major Buddhist cultures of India, Sri Lanka, China, Japan, Tibet and Burma. |
Contents
The Buddhas Funeral | 32 |
Asceticism Ambivalence | 60 |
The Moment of Death in Daoxuans Vinaya | 105 |
Esoteric Deathbed Practices | 134 |
The Deathbed Image of Master Hongyi | 175 |
Death Accounts in a Tibetan | 208 |
Some Connections between Self | 234 |
Suicide and Salvation | 266 |
Other editions - View all
The Buddhist Dead: Practices, Discourses, Representations Bryan J. Cuevas,Jacqueline I. Stone Limited preview - 2007 |
The Buddhist Dead: Practices, Discourses, Representations Bryan J. Cuevas,Jacqueline I. Stone No preview available - 2011 |
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