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

Contributor(s): Publication details: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, ©2008.Description: 1 online resource (x, 382 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781441619778
  • 1441619771
  • 9780824862152
  • 0824862155
  • 9780824869250
  • 0824869257
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Death and the afterlife in Japanese Buddhism.DDC classification:
  • 294.3/43880952 22
LOC classification:
  • B765.T54 K47 2008
Other classification:
  • 11.93
  • 6,25
Online resources:
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.
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  • digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Review: "For more than a thousand years, Buddhism has dominated Japanese death rituals and concepts of the afterlife. The nine essays in this volume, ranging chronologically from the tenth century to the present, bring to light both continuity and change in death practices over time. They also explore the interrelated issues of how Buddhist death rites have addressed individual concerns about the afterlife while also filling social and institutional needs and how Buddhist death-related practices have assimilated and refigured elements from other traditions, bringing together disparate, even conflicting, ideas about the dead, their postmortem fate, and what constitutes normative Buddhist practice." "Death and the Afterlife in Japanese Buddhism constitutes a major step toward understanding how Buddhism in Japan has forged and retained its hold on deathrelated thought and practice, providing one of the most detailed and comprehensive accounts of the topic to date."--Jacket.
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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.

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"For more than a thousand years, Buddhism has dominated Japanese death rituals and concepts of the afterlife. The nine essays in this volume, ranging chronologically from the tenth century to the present, bring to light both continuity and change in death practices over time. They also explore the interrelated issues of how Buddhist death rites have addressed individual concerns about the afterlife while also filling social and institutional needs and how Buddhist death-related practices have assimilated and refigured elements from other traditions, bringing together disparate, even conflicting, ideas about the dead, their postmortem fate, and what constitutes normative Buddhist practice." "Death and the Afterlife in Japanese Buddhism constitutes a major step toward understanding how Buddhism in Japan has forged and retained its hold on deathrelated thought and practice, providing one of the most detailed and comprehensive accounts of the topic to date."--Jacket.

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