Buddhist funeral cultures -- Chanting as 'bricolage technique': a comparison of South and Southeast Asian funeral recitation -- Weaving life out of death: the craft of the rag robe in Cambodian ritual technology -- Corpses and cloth: illustrations of the pasukula ceremony in Thai manuscripts -- Good death, bad death and ritual restructurings: the New Year ceremonies of the Phunoy in northern Laos -- Feeding the dead: ghosts, materiality and merit in a Lao Buddhist festival for the deceased -- Funeral rituals, bad death and the protection of social space among the Arakanese (Burma) -- Theatre of death and rebirth: monks' funerals in Burma -- From bones to ashes: the Teochiu management of bad death in China and overseas -- For Buddhas, families and ghosts: the transformation of the Ghost Festival into a Dharma assembly in southeast China -- Xianghua foshi (incense and flower Buddhist rites): a local Buddhist funeral ritual tradition in southeastern China -- Buddhist passports to the other world: a study of modern and early medieval Chinese Buddhist mortuary documents

1. Buddhist funeral rites and ceremonies -- Southeast Asia
2. Buddhist funeral rites and ceremonies -- China
3. Buddhism
4. culture