Buddhist funeral cultures of Southeast Asia and China
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Buddhist funeral cultures of Southeast Asia and China
Cambridge University Press, 2012
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Introduction. Buddhist funeral cultures / Patrice Ladwig and Paul Williams
- Chanting as "bricolage technique" : a comparison of South and Southeast Asian funeral recitation / Rita Langer
- Weaving life out of death : the craft of the rag robe in Cambodian ritual technology / Erik W. Davis
- Corpses and cloth : illustrations of the paṃsukũla ceremony in Thai manuscripts / M.L. Pattaratorn Chirapravati
- Good death, bad death and ritual restructurings : the New Year ceremonies of the Phunoy in northern Laos / Vanina Bouté
- Feeding the dead : ghosts, materiality and merit in a Lao Buddhist festival for the deceased / Patrice Ladwig
- Funeral rituals, bad death and the protection of social space among the Arakanese (Burma) / Alexandra de Mersan
- Theatre of death and rebirth : monks' funerals in Burma / François Robinne
- From bones to ashes : the Teochiu management of bad death in China and overseas / Bernard Formoso
- For Buddhas, families and ghosts : the transformation of the Ghost Festival into a Dharma assembly in southeast China / Ingmar Heise
- Xianghua foshi 香花佛事 (incense and flower Buddhist rites) : a local Buddhist funeral ritual tradition in southeastern China / Yik Fai Tam
- Buddhist passports to the other world : a study of modern and early medieval Chinese Buddhist mortuary documents / Frederick Shih-Chung Chen