Naomi Appleton

Narrating Karma and Rebirth

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how multi-life stories served to construct, communicate, and challenge ideas about karma and rebirth within early South Asia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 360g
• ISBN-13: 9781107566149
• ISBN-10: 1107566142
• Artikelnr.: 43043052

Autorenporträt

Naomi Appleton is Senior Lecturer in Asian Religions at the University of Edinburgh. Her primary research interest is the role of narrative in the construction, communication and challenge of religious ideas in early India, and she has published extensively on this area, including J¿taka Stories in Therav¿da Buddhism (Ashgate 2010), Narrating Karma and Rebirth (CUP 2014), Shared Characters in Jain, Buddhist and Hindu Narrative (Routledge 2017), as well as translations of Buddhist narrative and numerous articles on related themes.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction
2. Karma and the realms of rebirth
3. Karma and human potentiality
4. Jinas and Buddhas
5. Karma and community
6. Memory and omniscience
7. Conclusion
Appendix: texts referred to in this book.