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Buddhist Funeral Cultures of Southeast Asia and China (Paperback)
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Buddhist Funeral Cultures of Southeast Asia and China (Paperback)
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The centrality of death rituals has rarely been documented in
anthropologically informed studies of Buddhism. Bringing together a
range of perspectives including ethnographic, textual, historical
and theoretically informed accounts, this edited volume presents
the diversity of the Buddhist funeral cultures of mainland
Southeast Asia and China. While the contributions show that the
ideas and ritual practices related to death are continuously
transformed in local contexts through political and social changes,
they also highlight the continuities of funeral cultures. The
studies are based on long-term fieldwork and covering material from
Theravada Buddhism in Burma, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and various
regions of Chinese Buddhism, both on the mainland and in the
Southeast Asian diasporas. Topics such as bad death, the feeding of
ghosts, pollution through death, and the ritual regeneration of
life show how Buddhist cultures deal with death as a universal
phenomenon of human culture.
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