Death and the afterlife in Japanese Buddhism

Death and the afterlife in Japanese Buddhism [electronic resource] / edited by Jacqueline I. Stone and Mariko Namba Walter. - Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, c2008. - x, 382 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
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Buddhist funeral rites and ceremonies--Japan.
Future life--Buddhism.


Electronic books.

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