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Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Abbreviations and Conventions xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. Chapter 1: “Mounting the Smoke with Glittering Colors”: Self-Immolation in Early Medieval China 19
7. Chapter 2: The Lotus Sûtra, Auto-Cremation, and the Indestructible Tongue 54
8. Chapter 3: Saṃgha and the State: The Power(s) of Self-Immolation 78
9. Chapter 4: Is Self-Immolation a “Good Practice”? Yongming Yanshou on Relinquishing the Body 104
10. Chapter 5: Local Heroes in a Fragmenting Empire: Self-Immolation in the Late Tang and Five Dynasties 132
11. Chapter 6: One Thousand Years of Self-Immolation 164
12. Conclusion 195
13. Appendix 1 Major Collections of Biographies of Self-Immolators 203
14. Appendix 2 Critical Evaluations of Huijiao, Daoxuan, and Zanning 247
15. Notes 261
16. Bibliography 315
17. Index 347
18. About the Author 361