DOI: 10.30792/2949-5768-2024-8-115-124
BUDDHISM AND POSTHUMOUS NAMES IN JAPAN
Evgenia Lvovna Frolova ‒ Candidate of Historical Sciences, National Research Novosibirsk State University (Novosibirsk, Russia).
E-mail: janefr@mail.ru.
As part of a Buddhist funeral, Japanese people receive a special posthumous name. This tradition has been in place since the Middle Ages, but today it is criticized for the high cost of posthumous names. The religious significance of posthumous names is weakening in a consumer society.
