Religious Giving and the Invention of Karma in Theravada Buddhism Religious Giving and the Invention of Karma in Theravada Buddhism
Routledge Studies in Asian Religion

Religious Giving and the Invention of Karma in Theravada Buddhism

James Egge
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Publisher Description

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.

GENRE
Non-Fiction
RELEASED
2013
16 December
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
208
Pages
PUBLISHER
Taylor & Francis
SELLER
Taylor & Francis Group
SIZE
1.5
MB

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