Overview

The Encyclopeadia covers all major areas like Hindu mysticism, mysticism in Jainism and Buddhism, Hindu mystics, mysticism in Upanishads and other works including Bhagavad Gita, Vedas, and Puranas, mystic cults, Sufi and mystic saints in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam, Philosophy of mysticism in Tantra and Yoga. This book has a very modest chapter. The problem of the ethical transformation of a previously amoral eschatology into a more complex karmic doctrine was one of the intellectual concerns in terms of the origin of the karma theory.