Death and the Afterlife in Japanese Buddhism
by Stone, Jacqueline Ilyse; Walter, Mariko NambaEdition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2008-10-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Hawaii Pr
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Summary
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. Book jacket.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Mukaeko: Practice for the Deathbed | p. 27 |
| With the Help of "Good Friends": Deathbed Ritual Practices in Early Medieval Japan | p. 61 |
| Beyond Death and the Afterlife: Considering Relic Veneration in Medieval Japan | p. 102 |
| Collective Suicide at the Funeral of Jitsunyo: Mimesis or Solidarity? | p. 137 |
| At the Crossroads of Birth and Death: The Blood Pool Hell and Postmortem Fetal Extraction | p. 175 |
| Funerary Zen: Soto Zen Death Management in Tokugawa Japan | p. 207 |
| The Structure of Japanese Buddhist Funerals | p. 247 |
| The Price of Naming the Dead: Posthumous Precept Names and Critiques of Contemporary Japanese Buddhism | p. 293 |
| The Orthodox Heresy of Buddhist Funerals | p. 325 |
| Glossary of Chinese and Japanese Characters | p. 349 |
| Contributors | p. 363 |
| Index | p. 365 |
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