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Author : Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:69120252
Author : Bryan J. Cuevas,Jacqueline Ilyse Stone
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780824830311
In its teachings, practices and institutions, Buddhism in its varied Asian forms is centrally concerned with death and the dead. This title offers a comparative investigation of this topic across the major Buddhist cultures of India, Sri Lanka, China, Japan, Tibet and Burma.
Author : Sogyal Rinpoche
Publisher : Random House
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781448116959
25th Anniversary Edition Over 3 Million Copies Sold 'I couldn't give this book a higher recommendation' BILLY CONNOLLY Written by the Buddhist meditation master and popular international speaker Sogyal Rinpoche, this highly acclaimed book clarifies the majestic vision of life and death that underlies the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. It includes not only a lucid, inspiring and complete introduction to the practice of meditation, but also advice on how to care for the dying with love and compassion, and how to bring them help of a spiritual kind. But there is much more besides in this classic work, which was written to inspire all who read it to begin the journey to enlightenment and so become 'servants of peace'.
Author : Glenn H. Mullin
Publisher : Nicholson
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UVA:X001254122
Author : Mark Michael Rowe
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226730165
Despite popular images of priests seeking enlightenment in snow-covered mountain temples, the central concern of Japanese Buddhism is death. For that reason, Japanese Buddhism’s social and economic base has long been in mortuary services—a base now threatened by public debate over the status, treatment, and location of the dead. Bonds of the Dead explores the crisis brought on by this debate and investigates what changing burial forms reveal about the ways temple Buddhism is perceived and propagated in contemporary Japan. Mark Rowe offers a crucial account of how religious, political, social, and economic forces in the twentieth century led to the emergence of new funerary practices in Japan and how, as a result, the care of the dead has become the most fundamental challenge to the continued existence of Japanese temple Buddhism. Far from marking the death of Buddhism in Japan, Rowe argues, funerary Buddhism reveals the tradition at its most vibrant. Combining ethnographic research with doctrinal considerations, this is a fascinating book for anyone interested in Japanese society and religion.
Author : Jacqueline I. Stone,Mariko Namba Walter
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780824832049
For more than a thousand years, Buddhism has dominated Japanese death rituals and concepts of the afterlife. The nine essays in this volume, ranging chronologically from the tenth century to the present, bring to light both continuity and change in death practices over time. They also explore the interrelated issues of how Buddhist death rites have addressed individual concerns about the afterlife while also filling social and institutional needs and how Buddhist death-related practices have assimilated and refigured elements from other traditions, bringing together disparate, even conflicting, ideas about the dead, their postmortem fate, and what constitutes normative Buddhist practice. The idea that death, ritually managed, can mediate an escape from deluded rebirth is treated in the first two essays. Sarah Horton traces the development in Heian Japan (794–1185) of images depicting the Buddha Amida descending to welcome devotees at the moment of death, while Jacqueline Stone analyzes the crucial role of monks who attended the dying as religious guides. Even while stressing themes of impermanence and non-attachment, Buddhist death rites worked to encourage the maintenance of emotional bonds with the deceased and, in so doing, helped structure the social world of the living. This theme is explored in the next four essays. Brian Ruppert examines the roles of relic worship in strengthening family lineage and political power; Mark Blum investigates the controversial issue of religious suicide to rejoin one’s teacher in the Pure Land; and Hank Glassman analyzes how late medieval rites for women who died in pregnancy and childbirth both reflected and helped shape changing gender norms. The rise of standardized funerals in Japan’s early modern period forms the subject of the chapter by Duncan Williams, who shows how the Soto Zen sect took the lead in establishing itself in rural communities by incorporating local religious culture into its death rites. The final three chapters deal with contemporary funerary and mortuary practices and the controversies surrounding them. Mariko Walter uncovers a "deep structure" informing Japanese Buddhist funerals across sectarian lines—a structure whose meaning, she argues, persists despite competition from a thriving secular funeral industry. Stephen Covell examines debates over the practice of conferring posthumous Buddhist names on the deceased and the threat posed to traditional Buddhist temples by changing ideas about funerals and the afterlife. Finally, George Tanabe shows how contemporary Buddhist sectarian intellectuals attempt to resolve conflicts between normative doctrine and on-the-ground funerary practice, and concludes that human affection for the deceased will always win out over the demands of orthodoxy. Death and the Afterlife in Japanese Buddhism constitutes a major step toward understanding how Buddhism in Japan has forged and retained its hold on death-related thought and practice, providing one of the most detailed and comprehensive accounts of the topic to date. Contributors: Mark L. Blum, Stephen G. Covell, Hank Glassman, Sarah Johanna Horton, Brian O. Ruppert, Jacqueline I. Stone, George J. Tanabe, Jr., Mariko Namba Walter, Duncan Ryuken Williams.
Author : Bryan J. Cuevas,Jacqueline Ilyse Stone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 8120834240
Author : W. Y. Evans-Wentz
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780486845371
Derived from a Buddhist funerary text, this famous volume's timeless wisdom includes instructions for attaining enlightenment, preparing for the process of dying, and moving through the various stages of rebirth.
Author : C. W. Huntington
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781614297505
"A tenured professor of Eastern Religions and novelist accustomed to vigorous health receives a terminal diagnosis in the winter between terms, and by summer, his cancer has run its course. In between, he takes to his keyboard to plumb the foundations of all the Buddhist teachings and meditation he has spent a lifetime pursuing, to see how much has really penetrated his being. In this book, readers can join his journey of traversing the gap between knowledge and true wisdom"--
Author : Robert Thurman
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1993-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780553370904
The most accessible and informative version of the Buddhist classic available in English, with instruction in meditation, illuminating commentary, and guidance in the practical use of the prayers The so-called “Tibetan Book of the Dead” has been renowned for centuries as a cornerstone of Buddhist wisdom and religious thought. More recently, it has become highly influential in the Western world for its psychological insights into the processes of death and dying—and what they can teach us about the ways we live our lives. It has also been found to be helpful in the grieving process by people who have recently lost their loved ones. Composed in the eighth century C.E., it is intended to prepare the soul for the trials and transformations of the afterworld. Its profound message is that the art of dying is as important as the art of living. Drawing on Tibetan spiritual traditions, it shows us the workings of the mind in its various manifestations—terrifying and comforting, wrathful and beautiful—which appear more clearly after death in the consciousness of the deceased. By recognizing these manifestations, we can attain a state of enlightenment, both in this existence and in the existence to come. This authoritative translation preserves the form and spirit of the original and was prepared especially for Western readers by Robert A. F. Thurman, one of the most prominent Tibetan scholars in America and a close associate of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s.
Author : Jonathan S Watts,Yoshiharu Tomatsu
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-27
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781614290520
"In collaboration with the Jodo Shu Research Institute (JSRI)."
Author : Glenn H. Mullin
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781559393102
Whereas Western society views death as the last taboo, the Tibetan tradition incorporates meditation on death into everyday life. Tibetan Buddhists believe that a conscious awareness of one's own impermanence allows a person to live a happy, fulfilled life. Over the centuries, the Tibetans have developed a wide-ranging literature on death, including inspirational poetry and prose, prayers, and practical works on caring for the dying. This fascinating book presents nine short Tibetan texts. Important writings by the Second, Seventh, and Thirteenth Dalai Lamas and by Karma Lingpa, author of The Tibetan Book of the Dead, are included. It covers topics such as meditation techniques to prepare for death, inspirational accounts of the deaths of saints and yogis, and methods for training the mind in the transference of consciousness at the time of death.
Author : Robert Thurman
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780307784025
The most accessible and informative version of the Buddhist classic available in English, with instruction in meditation, illuminating commentary, and guidance in the practical use of the prayers The so-called “Tibetan Book of the Dead” has been renowned for centuries as a cornerstone of Buddhist wisdom and religious thought. More recently, it has become highly influential in the Western world for its psychological insights into the processes of death and dying—and what they can teach us about the ways we live our lives. It has also been found to be helpful in the grieving process by people who have recently lost their loved ones. Composed in the eighth century C.E., it is intended to prepare the soul for the trials and transformations of the afterworld. Its profound message is that the art of dying is as important as the art of living. Drawing on Tibetan spiritual traditions, it shows us the workings of the mind in its various manifestations—terrifying and comforting, wrathful and beautiful—which appear more clearly after death in the consciousness of the deceased. By recognizing these manifestations, we can attain a state of enlightenment, both in this existence and in the existence to come. This authoritative translation preserves the form and spirit of the original and was prepared especially for Western readers by Robert A. F. Thurman, one of the most prominent Tibetan scholars in America and a close associate of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s.
Author : Philip Kapleau
Publisher : Harper & Row Barnes & Noble Import Division
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Death
ISBN : UCSC:32106000077641
Author : Rita Langer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007-08-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134158737
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 social customs surrounding death in the Theravada tradition of Sri Lanka.
