Buddhisms and death

Death and Religion in a Changing World

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 69-92

  Goss, Robert E ^a   Klass, Dennis ^b  

^a Metropolitan Community Churches   (United States)

^b WEBSTER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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References (33)

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2. Rupert Gethin, The Foundations of Buddhism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), 26.
3. Theragatha, Elders' Verses 1:1035-1036
4. Burtt, Teachings of the Compassionate Buddha, 45.
5. George Pieris Malalasekera, "'Transference of Merit' in Ceylonese Buddhism, "Philosophy of East & West 17 (January 1967): 87.
6. John S. Strong, The Legend of King Ashoka: A Study and Translation of the Ashokavadana (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983), 175-186;
7. Melford Elliot Spiro, Buddhism and Society (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1971), 140;
8. Bond, "Theravada Buddhism's Meditation on Death, "237-258.
9. Peter Harvey, "Devotional Practices, "in Buddhism, ed. Peter Harvey (New York: Continuum, 2001), 136-138;
10. Christopher Lamb, "Rites of Passage, "in Buddhism, ed. Peter Harvey (New York: Continuum, 2001), 167;
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13. Swearer, Buddhist World, 60-61.
14. Tambiah, Buddhism and the Spirit Cults in North-East Thailand, 180.
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19. Mullen gives a range of the Tibetan literature on death: Glenn Mullen, Death and Dying in the Tibetan Tradition (Boston: Arkana, 1986).
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27. Stan R. Mumford, Himalayan Dialogue: Tibetan Lamas and Gurung Shamans in Nepal (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989), 205-209.
28. David W. Plath, "Where the Family of God Is the Family: The Role of the Dead in Japanese Households, "American Anthropologist 66, no. 2 (1964): 308.
29. Yasuaki Nara, "May the Deceased Get Enlightenment! An Aspect of the Enculturation of Buddhism in Japan, "Buddhist-Christian Studies 15 (1995): 19-42.
30. Robert J. Smith, Ancestor Worship in Contemporary Japan (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1974), 69.
31. Joe Yamamoto, Keigo Okonogi, Tetsuya Iwasaki, and Saburo Yoshimura, "Mourning in Japan, "American Journal of Psychiatry 125 (1969): 1661-1665.
32. Smith, Ancestor Worship in Contemporary Japan, 104.
33. Edmund T. Gilday, "Dancing with Spirit(s): Another View of the Other World in Japan, "History of Religions 32, no. 3 (1993): 273-300.