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Cited by 35Indian and Buddhist StudiesStudy and Philosophy of ReligionDeath, Funerary Practices, and Mourning

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Assisting the Dead by Venerating the Living: Merit Transfer in the Early Buddhist Tradition

Holt, John C.·1981·Numen
DOI 10.2307/3269794
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Death is an inevitable fact of life. For the religious as well as for some others, its occurrence does not necessarily imply life's termination or the final end of conscious being. In most traditional, and even in some post-traditional cultures, death is regarded as a transitional experience, a rite de passage: the deceased leaves behind the familiar vicissitudes of human life and enters into a new modali-

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Authors
Holt, J. C.
Corresponding author
Holt, John C.
Venue
Numen
Publisher
JSTOR
Published
1981-06
Volume
28
Issue
1
Pages
1
ISSN
0029-5973 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.2307/3269794
OpenAlex
W2020906856
Semantic Scholar
5a6e60593134628a7592b868e5400bb7fd13af73
Cited by
35
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0
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2024: 12 · 2022: 1 · 2020: 2 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 4 · 2012: 4
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Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
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Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Indian and Buddhist Studies
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Study and Philosophy of Religion
  • Social Sciences › Anthropology › Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning
Keywords
early Buddhism, death and rebirth, afterlife beliefs, Buddhist ritual, ancestor veneration

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Holt, J. C. (1981). Assisting the Dead by Venerating the Living: Merit Transfer in the Early Buddhist Tradition. Numen. https://doi.org/10.2307/3269794