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Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-08-07 - Publisher: Routledge
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Language: en
Pages: 353
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Language: en
Pages: 440
Pages: 440
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-08-20 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
For more than a thousand years, Buddhism has dominated Japanese death rituals and concepts of the afterlife. The nine essays in this volume, ranging chronologic
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Language: en
Pages: 505
Pages: 505
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-04-30 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
In its teachings, practices, and institutions, Buddhism in its varied Asian forms has been—and continues to be—centrally concerned with death and the dead.