Subject to death : life and loss in a Buddhist world /

Subject to death : life and loss in a Buddhist world /

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Author / Creator:Desjarlais, Robert R., author.
Imprint:Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2016.
©2016
Description:1 online resource (xii, 295 pages)
Language:English
Subject:
Death -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism.
Death -- Social aspects -- Nepal -- Helmu.
Helambu Sherpa (Nepalese people) -- Religion.
Death -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism
Death -- Social aspects
Nepal -- Helmu
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12390939
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ISBN:022635590X
9780226355900
9780226355733
022635573X
9780226355870
022635587X
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCOhost, viewed September 2, 2020).
Other form:Print version: Desjarlais, Robert R. Subject to death. Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, [2016] 9780226355733
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Note on Transliteration
  • Prelude
  • "Āmā, Khoi?"
  • Poiesis in Life and Death
  • Theorizing Death
  • I. The Impermanence of Life
  • A Good Death, Recorded
  • Impossibly and Intensively
  • Creative Subtraction
  • This Life
  • Attachment
  • An Ethics of Care
  • Oral Wills Are Harder than Stone
  • Seeing the Face
  • Liberation upon Hearing
  • The Pulse of Life
  • II. Passing from the Body
  • Death, Impermanence Has Arisen
  • Transference of Consciousness
  • Between
  • Field of Apparitions
  • Shifting, Not Dying
  • "Yes, It's Death"
  • Corpses, Fashioned
  • Bodies That Wound
  • The Five Sensual Pleasures
  • Consoling Mourners
  • Alternate Rhythms
  • III. Dissolution
  • Trouble
  • Eliminating the Corpse
  • Burnt Offerings
  • Thirst
  • Ashes, Burnt Bones
  • Finality
  • IV. Transmutations
  • Resting Place
  • Ritual Poiesis, in Time
  • Dragging, Hooking, Naming
  • Explanations, Face to Face
  • "No Form, No Sound . . ."
  • Generating Merit
  • Blank White
  • Showing the Way
  • Those Dangerous Supplements
  • V. After Life
  • Made for Forgetting
  • The Enigma of Mourning
  • Staring into the Sun
  • Postscript: Beyond Description
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes

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