Right Thoughts at the Last Moment: Buddhism and Deathbed Practices in Early Medieval Japan 9780824867652

Buddhists across Asia have often aspired to die with a clear and focused mind, as the historical Buddha himself is said

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Right Thoughts at the Last Moment: Buddhism and Deathbed Practices in Early Medieval Japan
9780824867652

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Jacqueline I. Stone (editor)
Robert E. Buswell (editor)

Table of contents :
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations and Conventions
Introduction
1. The Beginnings of Deathbed Practice in Japan
2. A Realm Apart
3. Exemplary Death
4. Interpreting the Signs
5. Anxieties
6. Deathbed Attendants
7. The Longue Durée of Deathbed Rites
Conclusion
Appendix: Annotated Bibliography of Deathbed Manuals
Notes
Character Glossary
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

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