James Egge

Religious Giving and the Invention of Karma in Theravada Buddhism (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136859229
• Artikelnr.: 40172162

Autorenporträt

Egge, James

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Question and Method
Part 1 Sacrifice and Karma in Didactic Verse and Discursive Prose
Chapter 1 The Discourse of Sacrifice
Chapter 2 The Discourse of Karma
Part 2 Sacrifice and Karma in Narrative
Chapter 3 The Centrality of Sacrifice in Vim?navatthu and Petavatthu
Chapter 4 The Commentaries' Karmic Retelling of the Vim?navatthu and Petavatthu Narratives
Chapter 5 Giving as Sacrifice, Karma, and Heroic Generosity in S?ha?avatthuppakara?a
doctrine Doctrine and Narrative