[Buddha-l] Re: Self-inmolation in the Buddhist tradition

[Benito Carral]

On Wednesday, October 12, 2005, Franz Metcalf wrote:

> The  practice  has  its locus classicus in (Richard's
> favorite) The Lotus Sutra, chapter 23.

  Thank  you  very much for all your references, I will
read that chapter tonight.

> Yum-hua  Jan,  "Buddhist  self-immolation in Medieval
> China", in History of Religion. No.2, 1965.

   Maybe  some  good  fellow  can  get  a  copy of that
article for me, I will ask.

> The  Gernet  reference  is  in  Bernard  Faure's _The
> Rhetoric of Immediacy_, which I bet you have.

   Hahaha.  You  are  right, so you would have won your
bet. In fact, I enjoyed it very much. :-)

   Best wishes,

   Beni