Buddhist Funeral Cultures of Southeast Asia and China
- New York Cambridge University Press 2012
- 296p
includes index and biblioraphy
1. Introduction: Buddhist funeral cultures 1 2. Chanting as `bricolage technique`: a Comparison of South and Southeast Asian funeral recitation 21 3. Weaving life out of death: the craft of the rag robe in Cambodian ritual technology 59 4. Corpses and cloth: illustrations of the pamsukula ceremony in Thai manuscripts 79 5. Good death, bad death and ritual restructurings: the New Year ceremonies of the Phunoy in northern Laos 99