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Burning for the Buddha: Self-immolation in Chinese Buddhism
Author Benn, James Alexander
Date2007
Pages360
PublisherUniversity of Hawaii Press
Publisher Url http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/cart/shopcore/?db_name=uhpress
LocationHonolulu, HI, US [檀香山, 夏威夷州, 美國]
Content type書籍=Book
Language英文=English
Table of contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations and Conventions
Introduction
Chapter 1: ¿Mounting the Smoke with Glittering Colors¿: Self-Immolation in Early
Medieval
China
Chapter 2: The Lotus Stra, Auto-Cremation, and the Indestructible Tongue
Chapter 3: Sagha and the State: The Power(s) of Self-Immolation
Chapter 4: Is Self-Immolation a ¿Good Practice¿?: Yongming Yanshou on
Relinquishing the Body
Chapter 5: Local Heroes in a Fragmenting Empire: Self-Immolation in the Late
Tang and Five
Dynasties
Chapter 6: One Thousand Years of Self-Immolation
Conclusion
Appendix 1: Major Collections of Biographies of Self-Immolators
Appendix 2: Critical Evaluations of Huijiao, Daoxuan, and Zanning
Notes
Bibliography
Index
ISBN9780824829926 (hc); 0824829921 (hc)
Hits644
Created date2008.11.28



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