Death and the Afterlife in Japanese Buddhism:

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Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1 Mukaekō: Practice for the Deathbed 27 Sarah Johanna Horton 2 With the Help of ‘‘Good Friends’’: Deathbed Ritual Practices in Early Medieval Japan 61 Jacqueline I. Stone 3 Beyond Death and the Afterlife: Considering Relic Veneration in Medieval Japan 102 Brian O. Ruppert 4 Collective Suicide at the Funeral of Jitsunyo: Mimesis or Solidarity? 137 Mark L. Blum 5 At the Crossroads of Birth and Death: The Blood Pool Hell and Postmortem Fetal Extraction 175 Hank Glassman 6 Funerary Zen: Sōtō Zen Death Management in Tokugawa Japan 207 Duncan Ryūken Williams 7 The Structure of Japanese Buddhist Funerals 247 Mariko Namba Walter 8 The Price of Naming the Dead: Posthumous Precept Names and Critiques of Contemporary Japanese Buddhism 293 Stephen G. Covell 9 The Orthodox Heresy of Buddhist Funerals 325 George J. Tanabe, Jr. Glossary of Chinese and Japanese Characters 349 Contributors 363 Index 365 vii ...