Buddhist Funeral Cultures of Southeast Asia and China

Paul, Williams (編); Ladwig, Patrice (編)

著者

Paul, Williams (編) ; Ladwig, Patrice (編)

出版年月日

2014.03

ページ

312

出版者

Cambridge University Press

出版サイト

https://www.cambridge.org/academic

出版地

Cambridge, UK [劍橋, 英國]

資料の種類

書籍=Book

言語

英文=English

ノート

Edited by Paul Williams, University of Bristol.
Patrice Ladwig, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany.

抄録

The centrality of death rituals has rarely been documented in anthropologically informed studies of Buddhism. Bringing together a range of perspectives including ethnographic, textual, historical and theoretically informed accounts, this edited volume presents the diversity of the Buddhist funeral cultures of mainland Southeast Asia and China. While the contributions show that the ideas and ritual practices related to death are continuously transformed in local contexts through political and social changes, they also highlight the continuities of funeral cultures. The studies are based on long-term fieldwork and covering material from Theravāda Buddhism in Burma, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and various regions of Chinese Buddhism, both on the mainland and in the Southeast Asian diasporas. Topics such as bad death, the feeding of ghosts, pollution through death, and the ritual regeneration of life show how Buddhist cultures deal with death as a universal phenomenon of human culture.

Buddhist Funeral Cultures of Southeast Asia and China - Half title page i - ii
Buddhist Funeral Cultures of Southeast Asia and China - Title page iii - iii
Copyright iv - iv
Contents v - vi
Figures vii - vii
Tables viii - viii
Contributors ix - xii
By Vanina Bouté, Frederick Shih - Chung Chen, M. L. Pattaratorn Chirapravati, Erik W. Davis, Alexandra de Mersan, Bernard Formoso, Patrice Ladwig, Rita Langer, Ingmar Heise, François Robinne, Yik Fai Tam, Paul Williams
Preface xiii - xiv
By Patrice Ladwig, Paul Williams

Chapter 1 - Introduction: 1 - 20
Buddhist funeral cultures
Patrice Ladwig, Paul Williams
Chapter 2 - Chanting as ‘bricolage technique’: 21 - 58
a comparison of South and Southeast Asian funeral recitation
By Rita Langer
Chapter 3 - Weaving life out of death: 59 - 78
the craft of the rag robe in Cambodian ritual technology
By Erik W. Davis
Chapter 4 - Corpses and cloth: 79 - 98
illustrations of the paṃsukūla ceremony in Thai manuscripts
By M. L. Pattaratorn Chirapravati
Chapter 5 - Good death, bad death and ritual restructurings: 99 - 118
the New Year ceremonies of the Phunoy in northern Laos
By Vanina Bouté
Chapter 6 - Feeding the dead: 119 - 141
ghosts, materiality and merit in a Lao Buddhist festival for the deceased
By Patrice Ladwig
Chapter 7 - Funeral rituals, bad death and the protection of social space among the Arakanese (Burma) 142 - 164
By Alexandra de Mersan
Chapter 8 - Theatre of death and rebirth: 165 - 191
monks’ funerals in Burma
By François Robinne
Chapter 9 - From bones to ashes: 192 - 216
the Teochiu management of bad death in China and overseas
By Bernard Formoso
Chapter 10 - For Buddhas, families and ghosts: 217 - 237
the transformation of the Ghost Festival into a Dharma Assembly in southeast China
By Ingmar Heise
Chapter 11 - Xianghua foshi 香花佛事 (incense and flower Buddhist rites): a local Buddhist funeral ritual tradition in southeastern China 238 - 260
By Yik Fai Tam
Chapter 12 - Buddhist passports to the other world: 261 - 286
a study of modern and early medieval Chinese Buddhist mortuary documents
By Frederick Shih - Chung Chen
Index 287 - 296

ISBN

9781107667877 (pbk); 9780511782251 (eb); 9781107003880 (hc)

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511782251

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