Table of Contents

• Books (2)
• Readings (1)
• Audio/Video (2)
• Reference Shelf (1)
• In the Library (4)
• Related Topics (1)

Books (2)

• Hungry Ghosts
  224 pages

  [recommended but under copyright]
• Of Ancestors and Ghosts: How Preta Narratives Constructed Buddhist Cosmology and Shaped Buddhist Ethics
  238 pages

  [recommended but under copyright]

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Readings (1)

• The Generative Power of Disgust: Aesthetics, Morality, and the Abject Preta Body (2020) – Adeana McNicholl
  ⭐ Recommended

  By examining abject preta bodies in accordance with their aesthetic description and function in relation to Buddhist understandings of karma and rebirth, we can observe two overlapping somatic discourses at work. The first speaks to the ultimately impermanent nature of the body, while the second depicts bodies as simultaneously ethical subjects and objects.

  37 pages

  Online pdf pdf

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Audio/Video (2)

Of Ancestors and Ghosts: How Preta Narratives Constructed Buddhist Cosmology and Shaped Buddhist Ethics (2024) – Adeana McNicholl

Travels in the Netherworld: Buddhist Popular Narratives of Death and the Afterlife in Tibet (2011) – Bryan J. Cuevas

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Reference Shelf (1)

• Stories of Ghosts: Peta Vatthu (2017)

  An online edition of Mahamevnawa Monastery’s translation of the Petavatthu. The monastery has also produced a delightful audiobook of the Petavatthu in English, which you can listen to for free on their website (courtesy of SoundCloud).

  Online

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In the Library (4)

Pv 1.3 Pūtimukha Sutta: Stinky Mouth (2020)

Pv 1.12 Uraga Sutta: The Snake (2020)

Pv 1.5 Tirokudda Kanda: Hungry Shades Outside the Walls (1994)

Pv 1.9 Mahāpesakāra Sutta: The Master Weaver (2020)

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Related Topics (1)

Supertopic

• Canonical Rebirth Stories »