Death and the afterlife in Japanese Buddhism / edited by Jacqueline I. Stone and Mariko Namba Walter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stone, Jacqueline Ilyse.

Walter, Mariko Namba.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Buddhist funeral rites and ceremonies--Japan.

Buddhist funeral rites and ceremonies.

Future life--Buddhism.

Future life.

Japan.

Physical Description:

x, 382 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2008]

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.

Contents:

Mukaekō : practice for the deathbed / Sarah Johanna Horton

With the help of "good friends" : deathbed ritual practices in early medieval Japan / Jacqueline I. Stone

Beyond death and the afterlife : considering relic veneration in medieval Japan / Brian O. Ruppert

Collective suicide at the funeral of Jitsunyo : mimesis or solidarity / Mark L. Blum

At the crossroads of birth and death : the blood pool hell and postmortem fetal extraction / Hank Glassman

Funerary Zen : Sōtō Zen death management in Tokugawa Japan / Duncan Ryūken Williams

The structure of Japanese Buddhist funerals / Mariko Namba Walter

The price of naming the deat : posthumous precept names and critiques of contemporary Japanese Buddhism / Stephen G. Covell

The orthodox heresy of Buddhist funerals / George J. Tanabe Jr.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780824832049

0824832043

OCLC:

213407351