Burma/Myanmar
Burma/Myanmar
Most of the books listed below only deal with death and funeral rites in passing and it is advisable (where nothing is indicated) to check in the index of the individual listed book for keywords such as: “funeral”, “death”, “life cycle rituals”, “chanting”, etc. For a more general bibliography on Burma see link at the end of this page.
- Allott, A. J. (2000). Continuity and Change in the Burmese Literary Canon. The Canon in Southeast Asian Literatures: Literatures of Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. D. Smyth. London, Curzon: 21-44.
- Bigandet, P. A. (1880). The life, or legend, of Gaudama, the Buddha of the Burmese. With annotations. The ways to neibban, and Notice on the phongyies, or Burmese monks. London, Trübner & Co., Ltd.
[not specific on funerals but See Vol. 2, p 19, fn 6 for brief description of funerals; free download available]
- Bode, M. H. (1909). The Pali literature of Burma. [London], Royal Asiatic Society.
- Brac de la Perriere, B. (1989). Les rituels de possession en Birmanie: Du culte d’état aux cérémonies privées. Paris: Editions Recherche sur les Civilisations.
- Brac de la Perriere, B. (2000). Malemort et “bonne mort” en Birmanie (Myanmar).De la malemort en quelques pays d’Asie. B. Baptandier. Paris: Karthala.
- Brac de la Perriere, B. (2000). Chamanisme et bouddhismes en Asie. La politique des esprits: Chamanismes et religions universalistes. D. Aigle, B. Brac de la Perriere, and J.-P. Chaumeil. Nanterre, Societe d’ethnologie.
- Brohm, J. (1963). "Buddhism and animism in a Burmese village". Journal of Asian Studies 22: 155–67.
- Carbine, J. A. (2007). Care for Buddhism: Text, Ceremony, and Religious Emotion in a Monk's Final Journey. The Buddhist Dead : practices, discourses, representations. B. J. Cuevas, J. I. Stone and Kuroda Institute. Honolulu, University of Hawai'i Press: 438-456.
- Crosby, K., K. Dhammasami, et al. (2009). "Streams of the salween: currents and crosscurrents in the study of Shan Buddhism." Contemporary Buddhism 10(1): 1-15.
- Cuevas, B. J., J. I. Stone, et al. (2007). The Buddhist Dead : practices, discourses, representations. Honolulu, University of Hawai'i Press.
- Dun, K. (1917). "Burmese Funeral Rites." Journal of the Burma Research Society 7(1 (April)): 85-88.
- Ferrars, M. and B. Ferrars (1900). Burma. London, S. Low, Marston and Company, Ltd.
[see chapter IX on Age and Mortality for funerals; free download available]
- Gordon, C. A. (1877). Our Trip to Burmah. With notes on that country. London, Baillière, Tindall
[see 185f, 261ff]
- Halliday, R. (1922). "The funeral customs of the Mons." Journal of the Burma Research Society 16(1): 28-35.
- Htin, A. (1962). Folk Elements in Burmese Buddhism. London, Oxford University Press.
- Isaacs, R. (2009). "Rockets and Ashes: Pongyibyan as Depicted in Nineteenth- and Twentieth Century European Sources." The Journal of Burma Studies 13: 107-136.
- King, W. L. (1990). A Thousand Lives Away: Buddhism in contemporary Burma. Berkeley, Calif., Asian Humanities Press.
- Kyaw, D. (1917). "Burmese funeral rites." Journal of the Burma Research Society 7: 85-88.
- Lopez, D. S. (1995). Buddhism in Practice. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press.
- Marshall, W. H. (1860). Four Years in Burmah. London, Charles J. Skeet.
[see vol 2, chapter 1; free download available]
- Nash, M. (1963). "Burmese Buddhism in Everyday Life." American Anthropologist 65(2): 285-295.
- Nash, M. (1965). The Golden Road to Modernity: village life in contemporary Burma. New York, Wiley.
- Ray, N. (1946). An Introduction to the Study of Theravada Buddhism in Burma: a study in Indo-Burmese historical and cultural relations from the earliest times to the British conquest. Calcutta, University of Calcutta.
- Sangermano, V. (1833). A description of the Burmese Empire. Rome, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland
[see chapter XIX; free download available]
- Scott, J. G. (1910). The Burman, his Life and Notions. London, Macmillan and Co., Ltd.
[particularly chapter 64; free download available]
- Smith-Forbes, C. J. F. (1878). British Burma and its people: being sketches of Native Manners, Customs, and Religion. London, J. Murray.
[see chapter IV, p 93 ff; free download available]
- Smyth, D. (2000). The Canon in Southeast Asian Literatures: Literatures of Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. London, Curzon.
- Spiro, M. E. (1970). Buddhism and Society; a great tradition and its Burmese vicissitudes. New York,, Harper & Row
[see chapter X-XII]
- Spiro, M. E. (1978). Burmese Supernaturalism. Philadelphia, Institute for the Study of Human Issues.
- Swearer, D. K. (1995). A Summary of the Seven Books of the Abhidhamma. Buddhism in Practice. D. S. Lopez. New Jersey, Princeton University Press: 336-342.
- Wales, H. G. Q. (1973). Early Burma -- Old Siam: a comparative commentary. London, Quaritch.
A further useful general bibliography about Burma is available online:
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