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The Buddhist Dead
Author | : Bryan J. Cuevas,Jacqueline Ilyse Stone |
Publsiher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 506 |
Release | : 2007-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780824830311 |
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In its teachings, practices and institutions, Buddhism in its 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.
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Author | : Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:69120252 |
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The Tibetan Book Of Living And Dying
Author | : Sogyal Rinpoche |
Publsiher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2012-02-29 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 9781448116959 |
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25th Anniversary Edition Over 3 Million Copies Sold 'I couldn't give this book a higher recommendation' BILLY CONNOLLY Written by the Buddhist meditation master and popular international speaker Sogyal Rinpoche, this highly acclaimed book clarifies the majestic vision of life and death that underlies the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. It includes not only a lucid, inspiring and complete introduction to the practice of meditation, but also advice on how to care for the dying with love and compassion, and how to bring them help of a spiritual kind. But there is much more besides in this classic work, which was written to inspire all who read it to begin the journey to enlightenment and so become 'servants of peace'.
The Buddhist Dead
Author | : Bryan J. Cuevas,Jacqueline Ilyse Stone |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 491 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Buddhism |
ISBN | : OCLC:717925936 |
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Death and the Afterlife in Japanese Buddhism
Author | : Jacqueline I. Stone,Mariko Namba Walter |
Publsiher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2008-08-20 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780824832049 |
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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 interrelated issues of how Buddhist death rites have addressed individual concerns about the afterlife while also filling social and institutional needs and how Buddhist death-related practices have assimilated and refigured elements from other traditions, bringing together disparate, even conflicting, ideas about the dead, their postmortem fate, and what constitutes normative Buddhist practice. The idea that death, ritually managed, can mediate an escape from deluded rebirth is treated in the first two essays. Sarah Horton traces the development in Heian Japan (794–1185) of images depicting the Buddha Amida descending to welcome devotees at the moment of death, while Jacqueline Stone analyzes the crucial role of monks who attended the dying as religious guides. Even while stressing themes of impermanence and non-attachment, Buddhist death rites worked to encourage the maintenance of emotional bonds with the deceased and, in so doing, helped structure the social world of the living. This theme is explored in the next four essays. Brian Ruppert examines the roles of relic worship in strengthening family lineage and political power; Mark Blum investigates the controversial issue of religious suicide to rejoin one’s teacher in the Pure Land; and Hank Glassman analyzes how late medieval rites for women who died in pregnancy and childbirth both reflected and helped shape changing gender norms. The rise of standardized funerals in Japan’s early modern period forms the subject of the chapter by Duncan Williams, who shows how the Soto Zen sect took the lead in establishing itself in rural communities by incorporating local religious culture into its death rites. The final three chapters deal with contemporary funerary and mortuary practices and the controversies surrounding them. Mariko Walter uncovers a "deep structure" informing Japanese Buddhist funerals across sectarian lines—a structure whose meaning, she argues, persists despite competition from a thriving secular funeral industry. Stephen Covell examines debates over the practice of conferring posthumous Buddhist names on the deceased and the threat posed to traditional Buddhist temples by changing ideas about funerals and the afterlife. Finally, George Tanabe shows how contemporary Buddhist sectarian intellectuals attempt to resolve conflicts between normative doctrine and on-the-ground funerary practice, and concludes that human affection for the deceased will always win out over the demands of orthodoxy. Death and the Afterlife in Japanese Buddhism constitutes a major step toward understanding how Buddhism in Japan has forged and retained its hold on death-related thought and practice, providing one of the most detailed and comprehensive accounts of the topic to date. Contributors: Mark L. Blum, Stephen G. Covell, Hank Glassman, Sarah Johanna Horton, Brian O. Ruppert, Jacqueline I. Stone, George J. Tanabe, Jr., Mariko Namba Walter, Duncan Ryuken Williams.
Bonds of the Dead
Author | : Mark Michael Rowe |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2011-09-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780226730165 |
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Despite popular images of priests seeking enlightenment in snow-covered mountain temples, the central concern of Japanese Buddhism is death. For that reason, Japanese Buddhism’s social and economic base has long been in mortuary services—a base now threatened by public debate over the status, treatment, and location of the dead. Bonds of the Dead explores the crisis brought on by this debate and investigates what changing burial forms reveal about the ways temple Buddhism is perceived and propagated in contemporary Japan. Mark Rowe offers a crucial account of how religious, political, social, and economic forces in the twentieth century led to the emergence of new funerary practices in Japan and how, as a result, the care of the dead has become the most fundamental challenge to the continued existence of Japanese temple Buddhism. Far from marking the death of Buddhism in Japan, Rowe argues, funerary Buddhism reveals the tradition at its most vibrant. Combining ethnographic research with doctrinal considerations, this is a fascinating book for anyone interested in Japanese society and religion.
Buddhist Funeral Cultures of Southeast Asia and China
Author | : Paul Williams,Patrice Ladwig |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2012-04-26 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781107003880 |
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Death rituals and Buddhist imagery of the afterlife have been central to the development and spread of Buddhism as a social and textual tradition. Bringing together ethnographic, historical and theoretically informed accounts, the book presents in-depth studies of the Buddhist funeral cultures of mainland Southeast Asia and China.
Buddhist Rituals of Death and Rebirth
Author | : Rita Langer |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2007-08-07 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781134158737 |
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Drawing on early Vedic sutras and Pali texts as well as archaeological and epigraphical material, this book provides a thorough analysis of the rituals and social customs surrounding death in the Theravada tradition of Sri Lanka.