Buddhist Funeral Cultures of Southeast Asia and ChinaPaul Williams, Patrice Ladwig "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 diversity of the Buddhist funeral cultures of mainland Southeast Asia and China. It arises out of the University of Bristol's Centre for Buddhist Studies research project Buddhist Death Rituals in Southeast Asia and China, funded by the United Kingdom's Arts and Humanities Research Council. This project involved extensive new research in Thailand, Laos and China. Other items from that project included several public exhibitions, extensive stills photographs, and several video films. The project-team produced two 30 minutes films on the ghost festival in Laos and China, one on urban funerals in Chiang Mai (Thailand) and several shorter clips dealing with funeral cultures in Laos, Thailand and China. Most of this material (and an extensive bibliography on the topic) is available free of charge from the project website located at the webpage of the Department of Theology and Religious Studies (Centre for Buddhist Studies) at the University of Bristol"-- Provided by publisher. |
Contents
Buddhist funeral cultures | 1 |
a comparison of South and Southeast Asian funeral recitation | 21 |
the craft of the rag robe in Cambodian ritual technology | 59 |
illustrations of the Pamdotbelowsukuumlla ceremony in Thai manuscripts | 79 |
the New Year ceremonies of the Phunoy in northern Laos | 99 |
ghosts materiality and merit in a Lao Buddhist festival for the deceased | 119 |
Chapter 7 Funeral rituals bad death and the protection of social space among the Arakanese Burma | 142 |
monks funerals in Burma | 165 |
the Teochiu management of bad death in China and overseas | 192 |
the transformation of the Ghost Festival into a Dharma Assembly in southeast China | 217 |
a local Buddhist funeral ritual tradition in southeastern China | 238 |
a study of modern and early medieval Chinese Buddhist mortuary documents | 261 |
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Other editions - View all
Buddhist Funeral Cultures of Southeast Asia and China Paul Williams,Patrice Ladwig Limited preview - 2012 |
Buddhist Funeral Cultures of Southeast Asia and China Paul Williams,Patrice Ladwig No preview available - 2014 |
Common terms and phrases
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