Religious Giving and the Invention of Karma in Theravada BuddhismDemonstrates 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. |
Contents
The Discourse of Sacrifice | 15 |
The Discourse of Karma | 41 |
Representations of Vedic sacrifice in karmic prose | 52 |
Why karma? | 60 |
The Centrality of Sacrifice | 71 |
The Commentaries Karmic Retelling | 89 |
Giving as Sacrifice Karma and Heroic | 101 |
The social context of giving and of progress toward nirvāņa | 113 |
Notes | 119 |
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Religious Giving and the Invention of Karma in Theravada Buddhism James R. Egge Limited preview - 2002 |
Religious Giving and the Invention of Karma in Theravada Buddhism James Egge No preview available - 2015 |
Common terms and phrases
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