Buddhist funeral cultures of Southeast Asia and China /

The centrality of death rituals has in anthropologically informed studies of Buddhism been little documented. The current volume brings together a range of perspectives on Buddhist death rituals including ethnographic, textual, historical and theoretically informed accounts, and presents the diversi...

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Other Authors:	Williams, Paul, 1950-, Ladwig, Patrice
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Subjects:	Buddhist funeral rites and ceremonies > Southeast Asia. Buddhist funeral rites and ceremonies > China. RELIGION / Buddhism / General (see also PHILOSOPHY / Buddhist)