Religion: Buddhism

Chowdhury, C. 2019

‘The spirit of the gift: Burmese Buddhist death rituals in North America’, in H. Snellman, E. Koskinen-Koivisto & S. Samaro (eds) Transnational Death, Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society, 100-117.

Goss, R. & Klass, D. 2015

‘Buddhisms and death’, in K. Garces-Foley (ed.) Death and Religion in a Changing World, London: Routledge, 69-92.

Gould, H., Kohn, T. & Gibbs, M. 2019

‘Uploading the ancestors: experiments with digital Buddhist altars in contemporary Japan’, Death Studies 43:7, 456-465.

Khrü, A. & Keyes, C. 1980

‘Funerary rituals and the Buddhist meaning of death: an interpretive text from modern Thailand’, Journal of the Siam Society, 68:1, 1-28.

Westendorp, M. 2018

‘Individual expressions of familial rituals: Buddhist and Anglican ways of paying respect to ancestors in contemporary Hong Kong’, Journal of Ritual Studies, 32:2, 43-54.

Events

The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract