Download or read book Right Thoughts at the Last Moment written by Jacqueline Ilyse Stone and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buddhists across Asia have often sought to die, as the Buddha himself is said to have done, with a clear and focused mind. This study explores the reception and development in early medieval Japan (roughly, tenth through fourteenth centuries) of the ideal of 'dying with right mindfulness' (rinju shonen) and the discourses and practices in which it was embedded.