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Tibetan Rituals of Death: Buddhist Funerary Practices (Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism) - Hardcover

Buch 37 von 77: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism

Gouin, Margaret

 
9780415566360: Tibetan Rituals of Death: Buddhist Funerary Practices (Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism)

Inhaltsangabe

This book centres on funeral rituals in Tibetan Buddhism with particular emphasis on their structure and performance. Drawing on historical travel literature, anthropological studies and ethnographic literature, as well as Tibetan texts and existing academic studies, the author describes and analyses Tibetan Buddhist funeral rituals from the earliest available records up to the present.

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Margaret Gouin received her doctorate in Tibetan Buddhist studies from the University of Bristol and is now an independent scholar. Her current areas of interest are dying and death in Buddhist practice, the adaptation and evolution of Buddhism in the West, and research methodology.

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