The Buddhist Dead Practices, Discourses, Representations

includes index and biblioraphy

1 The Buddha`s Funeral 32 John S. Strong 2 Cross-Dressing with the Dead: Asceticism, Ambivalence, and Institutional Values in an Indian Monastic Code 60 Gregory Schopen 3 The Moment of Death in Daoxuan`s Vinaya Commentary 105 Koichi Shinohara 4 The Secret Art of Dying: Esoteric Deathbed Practices in Heian Japan 134 Jacqueline I. Stone 5 The Deathbed Image of Master Hongyi 175 Raoul Bimbaum 6 Dying Like Milarepa: Death Accounts in a Tibetan Hagiographic Tradition 208 Kurtis R. Schaeffer 1 Fire and the Sword: Some Connections between `Self-Immolation and Religious Persecution in the History of Chinese Buddhism 234 James A. Benn 8 Passage to Fudaraku: Suicide and Salvation in Premodern Japanese Buddhism 266 D. Max Moerman 9 The Death and Return of Lady Wangzin: Visions of the Afterlife in Tibetan Buddhist Popular Literature 297 Bryan J. Cuevas 10 Gone but Not Departed: The Dead among the Living in Contemporary Buddhist Sri Lanka 326 John Clifford Holt 11 Mulian in the Land of Snows and King Gesar in Hell:A Chinese Tale of Parental Death in Its Tibetan Transformations 345 Matthew T. Kapstein 12 Chinese Buddhist Death Ritual and the Transformation of Japanese Kinship 378 Hank Glassman 13 Grave Changes: Scattering Ashes in Contemporary Japan 405 Mark Rowe 14 Care for Buddhism: Text, Ceremony, and Religious Emotion in a Monk`s Final Journey 438 Jason A. Carbine