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Announcing a new
book from Jodo Shu Press
Never Die
Alone
Birth as Death in Pure Land Buddhism
To die alone is
perhaps everyonefs greatest fear, yet in the modern world
in hospital rooms, nursing homes or private residences, it has become
groutineh. 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 Buddhafs Pure Land;
Yoshiharu Tomatsu the
Director of the Jodo Shu Research Institutefs Ojo and Death Project; and
a group of Thai Buddhists offering a
different view
of Buddhist dying.
On Sale July 2008!
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