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Death and the Afterlife in Japanese Buddhism
Language: en
Pages: 440
Authors: Jacqueline I. Stone
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-08-20 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

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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 chronologic
Death and the Afterlife in Japanese Buddhism
Language: en
Pages: 393
Authors: Jacqueline I. Stone
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-08-20 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

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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 chronologic
Breaking the Circle
Language: en
Pages: 212
Authors: Carl B. Becker
Categories: Family & Relationships
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993 - Publisher: SIU Press

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In this much-needed examination of Buddhist views of death and the afterlife, Carl B. Becker bridges the gap between books on death in the West and books on Bud
Bonds of the Dead
Language: en
Pages: 275
Authors: Mark Michael Rowe
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-09-30 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Despite popular images of priests seeking enlightenment in snow-covered mountain temples, the central concern of Japanese Buddhism is death. For that reason, Ja
The Buddhist Dead
Language: en
Pages: 505
Authors: Bryan J. Cuevas
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-04-30 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

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In its teachings, practices, and institutions, Buddhism in its varied Asian forms has been—and continues to be—centrally concerned with death and the dead.