Religious Giving and the Invention of Karma in Theravada Buddhism (RoutledgeCurzon Studies in Asian Religions)

Religious Giving and the Invention of Karma in Theravada Buddhism (RoutledgeCurzon Studies in Asian Religions)

by JamesEgge (Author)

Synopsis

This title 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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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 21 Mar 2002

ISBN 10: 0700715061
ISBN 13: 9780700715060