Never Die Alone
定価 1,980 円（税込） → 特別価格 1,760 円（税込）
B5変形判 175頁 ISBN978-4-88363-041-7 C0015
ジョナサン・ワッツ/戸松義晴 編
浄土宗総合研究所 発行
[ 商品説明 ]
浄土宗総合研究所の「Ojo&Death(往生と死)」プロジェクトチームが、2年間にわたり、「往生と死」について、浄土教、日本仏教が現代社会にどのような意味を持ち、関わっていくのかを研究した成果。法然上人の往生観をはじめ、カール・ベッカー氏や、英国、タイなどの研究者が講演した記録などを収録。
NEVER DIE ALONE
Birth as Death in Pure Land Buddhism
Edited by Jonathan Watts and Yoshiharu Tomatsu
175 pages, B4 6" X 9"
ISBN: 4883630412 (July 2008)
To die alone is perhaps everyone’s greatest fear, yet in the modern world in hospital rooms, nursing homes or private residences, it has become “routine”. This volume covers many aspects of this issue, from our basic fears of death and of facing death alone, to what lies on the other side of death, and perhaps most importantly, what we should do now to prepare for that penultimate moment of life, which is death. It explores why the pursuit of wisdom, compassion, and the ending of our cycles of affliction and dissatisfaction is not a task that should be pursued nor can be achieved alone. We should never die alone because we all can learn together from the amazing moment of death. Like a birth, a marriage, or a graduation, death can be a festival of sharing a tremendously important experience. It can bring us closer to others, to ourselves, and to wholeness. From the lavish cover painting which has served Pure Land followers for centuries as an object of contemplation on their deathbeds to the five essays by prominent Pure Land specialists contained inside, this small book offers useful tools with which to encounter death; and to experience death as Birth (ojo).
Authors include: Mark Blum author of The Origins and Development of Pure Land Buddhism; Carl Becker author of Breaking the Circle: Death and the Afterlife in Buddhism; David Brazier author of Who Loves Dies Well: On the Brink of Buddha’s Pure Land; Yoshiharu Tomatsu the Director of the Jodo Shu Research Institute’s Ojo and Death Project; and a group of Thai Buddhists offering a different view of Buddhist dying.
