{"product_id":"the-buddhist-dead-studies-in-east-asian-buddhism","title":"Buddhist Dead (Studies in East Asian Buddhism)","description":"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. Yet surprisingly \"death in Buddhism\" has received little sustained scholarly attention. \u003cem\u003eThe Buddhist Dead\u003c\/em\u003e offers the first comparative investigation of this topic across the major Buddhist cultures of India, Sri Lanka, China, Japan, Tibet, and Burma. Its individual essays, representing a range of methods, shed light on a rich array of traditional Buddhist practices for the dead and dying; the sophisticated but often paradoxical discourses about death and the dead in Buddhist texts; and the varied representations of the dead and the afterlife found in Buddhist funerary art and popular literature. This important collection moves beyond the largely text--and doctrine--centered approaches characterizing an earlier generation of Buddhist scholarship and expands its treatment of death to include ritual, devotional, and material culture.","brand":"University of Hawai'i Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54064889921880,"sku":null,"price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780824835996_39e842ca-46c7-41ca-b2dc-f4a0fdb1bec2.jpg?v=1778827559","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/the-buddhist-dead-studies-in-east-asian-buddhism","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}