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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