Religious Giving and the Invention of Karma in Theravada Buddhism

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Bad Destinies
Bodhisattva
Buddha Kassapa
Buddhist Monastics
Buddhist sacrificial rituals
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Chronological Stratification
Didactic Verse
early Buddhist ethics
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Good Rebirth
Kammatic Buddhism
Karmic Effects
karmic sacrifice discourse
Karmic Theory
Mental Purification
Meritorious Acts
Meritorious Deed
narrative analysis Buddhism
Pali canon studies
Pali Imaginaire
Patron's Body
Patron’s Body
Prose Passages
Reborn
religious generosity theory
Religious Giving
Sacrificial Discourse
Sacrificial Verses
Vedic religious influence
Vedic Sacrifice
Violate
Worthy Recipients

Product details

  • ISBN 9781138862623
  • Weight: 249g
  • Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 04 Mar 2015
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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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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