Bonds of the Dead
            
                Buddhism and Modernity
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011
Language: eng; jpn
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780226730158
Description: The central concern of Japanese Buddhism is death. This book shows how mortuary services came to form the social and economic base of Buddhist institutions and considers how this base has recently been eroded by changing public perceptions of the status, treatment and location of the dead.