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Buddhist Funeral Cultures of Southeast Asia and China: Good death, bad death and ritual restructurings: the New Year ceremonies of the Phunoy in northern Laos
Language: en
Pages: 296
Authors: Paul Williams
Categories: Buddhist funeral rites and ceremonies
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher:

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"The centrality of death rituals has in anthropologically informed studies of Buddhism been little documented. The current volume brings together a range of per
Buddhist Funeral Cultures of Southeast Asia and China
Language: en
Pages: 311
Authors: Paul Williams
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-04-26 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Death rituals and Buddhist imagery of the afterlife have been central to the development and spread of Buddhism as a social and textual tradition. Bringing toge
The Routledge Companion to Death and Dying
Language: en
Pages: 693
Authors: Christopher M Moreman
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-05-18 - Publisher: Routledge

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Few issues apply universally to people as poignantly as death and dying. All religions address concerns with death from the handling of human remains, to defini
Buddhist Rituals of Death and Rebirth
Language: en
Pages: 256
Authors: Rita Langer
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-08-07 - Publisher: Routledge

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Drawing on early Vedic sutras and Pali texts as well as archaeological and epigraphical material, this book provides a thorough analysis of the rituals and soci
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.