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The Buddhist Dead
Language: en
Pages: 505
Authors: Bryan J. Cuevas
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-04-30 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

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In its teachings, practices, and institutions, Buddhism in its varied Asian forms has been—and continues to be—centrally concerned with death and the dead.
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Language: en
Pages: 377
Authors: W. Y. Evans-Wentz
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-09-28 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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The Tibetan Book of the Dead is one of the texts that, according to legend, Padma-Sambhava was compelled to hide during his visit to Tibet in the late 8th centu
Death and the Afterlife in Japanese Buddhism
Language: en
Pages: 440
Authors: Jacqueline I. Stone
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-08-20 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

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For more than a thousand years, Buddhism has dominated Japanese death rituals and concepts of the afterlife. The nine essays in this volume, ranging chronologic
The Buddhist on Death Row
Language: en
Pages: 230
Authors: David Sheff
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-08-04 - Publisher: HarperCollins UK

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, an extraordinary story of redemption in the darkest of places.
Bonds of the Dead
Language: en
Pages: 275
Authors: Mark Michael Rowe
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-09-30 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Despite popular images of priests seeking enlightenment in snow-covered mountain temples, the central concern of Japanese Buddhism is death. For that reason, Ja