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Bonds of the Dead: Temples, Burial, and the Transformation of Contemporary Japanese Buddhism

Bonds of the Dead: Temples, Burial, and the Transformation of Contemporary Japanese Buddhism

Paperback

Series: Buddhism and Modernity

BuddhismJapanese History

ISBN10: 0226730158
ISBN13: 9780226730158
Publisher: Univ Of Chicago Pr
Published: Nov 1 2011
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Despite popular images of priests seeking enlightenment in snow-covered mountain temples, the central concern of Japanese Buddhism is death. For that reason, Japanese Buddhism's social and economic base has long been in mortuary services-a base now threatened by public debate over the status, treatment, and location of the dead. Bonds of the Dead explores the crisis brought on by this debate and investigates what changing burial forms reveal about the ways temple Buddhism is perceived and propagated in contemporary Japan.

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