Assisting the Dead by Venerating the Living: Merit Transfer in the Early Buddhist Tradition

Abstract

Death is an inevitable fact of life. For the religious as well as for some others, its occurrence does not necessarily imply life's termination or the final end of conscious being. In most traditional, and even in some post-traditional cultures, death is regarded as a transitional experience, a rite de passage: the deceased leaves behind the familiar vicissitudes of human life and enters into a new modali-

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