Death, Afterlife, and Eschatology: A Thematic Source Book of the History of Religions (Part 3 of From Primitives to Zen)

xi, 109 pp. This third part of From Primitives to Zen, the religious documents presented there demonstrate man's universal preoccupation with death and its meaning. From the search of Gilgamesh of immortality to the description of the moment of death in the Upanishads, this volume includes various funerary rites, together with Eastern and Western conceptions of death, immortality, paradise, and the end of the world.