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Assisting the Dead by Venerating the Living: Merit Transfer in the Early Buddhist Tradition
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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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“Buddhist interpretations of death did not originate in an historical and cultural vacuum. Conceptions of afterlife and the prescribed behaviour relating to the dead were modified adaptations of prevailing Br¯ ahmanical patterns of belief. This is especially apparent when we examine the beliefs and practices of the early Buddhist laity.”
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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)
- OpenAlex
- W2020906856
- Semantic Scholar
- 5a6e60593134628a7592b868e5400bb7fd13af73
- Cited by
- 35
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2024: 12 · 2022: 1 · 2020: 2 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 4 · 2012: 4
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Numen (publishedVersion)
- 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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