Religious Giving and the Invention of Karma in Theravada Buddhism

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Religious Giving and the Invention of Karma in Theravada Buddhism

Regional / International studies Religion: general Buddhism

Author: James Egge

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Collection: Routledge Studies in Asian Religion

Language: English

Published by: Routledge

Published on: 16 December 2013

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 1 Mb

ISBN: 9781136859229


Demonstrates that Buddhists appropriated the practice, vocabulary, and ideology of sacrifice from Vedic religion, and discusses the relationship of this sacrificial discourse to ideas of karma in the Pali canon and in early Buddhism.

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