Death and the afterlife in Japanese Buddhism -

Jacqueline I. Stone, Mariko Namba Walter

University of Hawai‘i Press

2009

394 páginas

13h 8m

ISBN-13: 9780824832049

In its teachings, practices and instituitions, 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 invertigation 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 ofter 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.