Contents:1 The Buddha's Funeral
John S. Strong
2 Cross-Dressing with the Dead: Asceticism, Ambivalence,
and Institutional Values in an Indian Monastic Code
Gregory Schopen
3 The Moment of Death in Daoxuan's Vinaya
Commentary
Koichi Shinohara
4 The Secret Art of Dying: Esoteric Deathbed Practices
in Heian Japan
Jacqueline I. Stone
5 The Deathbed Image of Master Hongyi
Raoul Bimbaum
6 Dying Like Milarepa: Death Accounts in a Tibetan
Hagiographic Tradition
Kurtis R. Schaeffer
7 Fire and the Sword: Some Connections between'Self-
Immolation and Religious Persecution in the History
of Chinese Buddhism
James A. Benn
8 Passage to Fudaraku: Suicide and Salvation in
Premodem Japanese Buddhism
D. Max Moerman
9 The Death and Return of Lady Wangzin: Visions of
the Afterlife in Tibetan Buddhist Popular Literature
Biyau J. Cuevas
10 Gone but Not Departed: The Dead among the Living
in Contemporaiy Buddhist Sri Lanka
John Clifford Holt
11 Mulian in the Land of Snows and King Cesar in Hell:
A Chinese Tale of Parental Death in Its Tibetan
Transformations
Matthew T. Kapstein
12 Chinese Buddhist Death Ritual and the Transfonnation
of Japanese Kinship
Hank Glassman
13 Grave Changes: Scattering Ashes in Contemporary
Japan
Mark Rowe
14 Care for Buddhism: Text, Ceremony, and Religious
Emotion in a Monk's Final Journey
Jason A. Carbine
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