Burning for the Buddha [electronic resource] : self-immolation in Chinese Buddhism / James A. Benn.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in East Asian Buddhism ; no. 19.Publication details: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2007.Description: xiii, 360 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 294.3/43420951 22
LOC classification:
  • BQ5680.S45 B46 2007eb
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Contents:
Introduction -- "Mounting the smoke with glittering colors": self-immolation in early medieval China -- The Lotus Sūtra, auto-cremation, and the indestructible tongue -- Saṃgha and the state: the power(s) of self-immolation -- Is self-immolation a "good practice"? Yongming Yanshou on relinquishing the body -- Local heroes in a fragmenting empire: self-immolation in the late Tang and five dynasties -- One thousand years of self-immolation -- Conclusion.
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"A Kuroda Institute book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-345) and index.

Introduction -- "Mounting the smoke with glittering colors": self-immolation in early medieval China -- The Lotus Sūtra, auto-cremation, and the indestructible tongue -- Saṃgha and the state: the power(s) of self-immolation -- Is self-immolation a "good practice"? Yongming Yanshou on relinquishing the body -- Local heroes in a fragmenting empire: self-immolation in the late Tang and five dynasties -- One thousand years of self-immolation -- Conclusion.

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