Right Thoughts at the Last Moment: Buddhism and Deathbed Practices in Early Medieval Japan
(Part of the Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism Series)
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Buddhists across Asia have often aspired to die with a clear and focused mind, as the historical Buddha himself is said to have done. This book explores how the ideal of dying with right mindfulness was appropriated, disseminated, and transformed in premodern Japan, focusing on the late tenth through early fourteenth centuries. By concentrating one's thoughts on the Buddha in one's last moments, it was said even an ignorant and sinful person could...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0824856430
ISBN13:9780824856434
Release Date:November 2016
Publisher:University of Hawaii Press
Length:624 Pages
Weight:2.24 lbs.
Dimensions:1.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"
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