Death and the Afterlife in Japanese Buddhism by Mariko Namba Walter, Jacqueline I. Stone

Death and the Afterlife in Japanese Buddhism

Mariko Namba Walter, Jacqueline I. Stone

382 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

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For more than a thousand years, Buddhism has dominated Japanese death rituals and concepts of the afterlife. The nine essays in this volume, ranging chronologically from the tenth century to the present, bring to light both continuity and change i...

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