Buddhist funeral cultures of Southeast Asia and China /
"The centrality of death rituals has in anthropologically informed studies of Buddhism been little documented. The current volume brings together a range of perspectives on Buddhist death rituals including ethnographic, textual, historical and theoretically informed accounts, and presents the d...
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Cambridge :
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2012.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: Buddhist funeral cultures / Patrice Ladwig and Paul Williams
- 2. Chanting as 'bricolage technique': a comparison of South and Southeast Asian funeral recitation / Rita Langer
- 3. Weaving life out of death: the craft of the rag robe in Cambodian ritual technology / Erik W. Davis
- 4. Corpses and cloth: illustrations of the paṃsukũla ceremony in Thai manuscripts / M.L. Pattaratorn Chirapravati
- 5. Good death, bad death and ritual restructurings: the New Year ceremonies of the Phunoy in northern Laos / Vanina Bouté
- 6. Feeding the dead: ghosts, materiality and merit in a Lao Buddhist festival for the deceased / Patrice Ladwig
- 7. Funeral rituals, bad death and the protection of social space among the Arakanese (Burma) / Alexandra de Mersan
- 8. Theatre of death and rebirth: monks' funerals in Burma / François Robinne
- 9. From bones to ashes: the Teochiu management of bad death in China and overseas / Bernard Formoso
- 10. For Buddhas, families and ghosts: the transformation of the Ghost Festival into a Dharma assembly in southeast China / Ingmar Heise
- 11. Xianghua foshi (incense and flower Buddhist rites): a local Buddhist funeral ritual tradition in southeastern China / Yik Fai Tam
- 12. Buddhist passports to the other world: a study of modern and early medieval Chinese Buddhist mortuary documents / Frederick Shih-Chung Chen.