... of death and dying leads not to detachment and renunciation, but a reworking of a Buddhist theme such that it produces instead a heightening of erotic and affective intensities. Setsuwa collections such as Hosshinshû (Collection of Tales of Religious Awakening) by Kamo no Chômei, and Kankyo no tomo...

...Buddhists across Asia have often sought to die, as the Buddha himself is said to have done, with a clear and focused mind. This study explores the reception and development in early medieval Japan (roughly, tenth through fourteenth centuries) of the ideal of “dying with right mindfulness...

... in addressing a number of topics organized around issues of the body, disposal of remains, ancestor worship and rites, and the afterlife. The first two chapters explore the ways in which bodies of the dying and the dead were dealt with from the Greater Silla Kingdom (668–935) to the mid-twentieth century. Grave...