Right Thoughts at the Last Moment: Buddhism and Deathbed Practices in Early Medieval Japan

by Jacqueline I. Stone

Buddhists across Asia have often aspired to die with a clear and focused mind, as the historical Buddha himself is said to have done. This book explores how the ideal of dying with right mindfulness was appropriated, disseminated, and transformed in premodern Japan, focusing on the late tenth through early fourteenth centuries. By concentrating one's thoughts on the Buddha in one's last moments, it was said even an ignorant and sinful person could...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824856430
• ISBN13: 9780824856434
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 624 Pages
• Weight: 2.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"