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A Case Study of the Decline of the Buddhist Funeral Ritual, the Guangdong Yuqie Yankou |
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Sik, Hin Hung
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Sik, Fa Ren
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| Source |
Contemporary Buddhism: An Interdisciplinary Journal
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| Volume | v.17 n.1 |
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| Date | 2016.05 |
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| Pages | 116 - 137 |
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| Publisher | Routledge |
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https://www.routledge.com/
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| Location | Abingdon, UK [阿賓登, 英國] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | Research article |
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| Keyword | Buddhist Funeral Rites & Ceremonies; Undertakers & Undertaking; Buddhism; Buddhist Monasteries; Mourning Customs China Cultural Revolution, China, 1966-1969 |
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| Abstract | This article contextualizes the decline of the Buddhist death ritual, the Guangdong Yuqie Yankou (廣東瑜伽焰口), through an examination of external and internal factors that might have affected its development in contemporary Hong Kong. During the last two decades, its popularity has dramatically declined, so much so that it now occupies an insignificant place among the pool of local funeral rituals. Its waning is not only a result of changing socioeconomic factors, such as contemporary lifestyles, commercialization of the funeral industry, ‘fast-food’ mortuary practices, and diminished religiosity of the Hong Kong laity, but is also caused by the scarcity of presiding Buddhist masters and competition from Buddhist rituals imported from other provinces of China. These intertwining factors have worked together to foster the decline of the ritual. The data for this ethnographic study were mainly collected in interviews and through the observation of participants. |
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| ISSN | 14639947 (P); 14767953 (E) |
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| DOI | 10.1080/14639947.2016.1162424 |
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| Hits | 343 |
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| Created date | 2016.09.30 |
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| Modified date | 2017.07.17 |
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