Burning for the Buddha is the first book-length study of the theory
and practice of ""abandoning the body""(self-immolation) in Chinese
Buddhism. It examines the hagiographical accounts of all those who
made offerings of their own bodies and places them in historical,
social, cultural, and doctrinal context. Rather than privilege the
doctrinal and exegetical interpretations of the tradition, which
assume the central importance of the mind and its cultivation,
James Benn focuses on the ways in which the heroic ideals of the
bodhisattva present in scriptural materials such as the Lotus Sutra
played out in the realm of religious practice on the ground.
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