Religious Giving and the Invention of Karma in Theravada Buddhism

James Egge (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

204 Seiten

2002
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-7007-1506-0 (ISBN)

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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.

Egge, James

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;

Erscheint lt. Verlag	21.3.2002
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Studies in Asian Religion
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	540 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
ISBN-10	0-7007-1506-1 / 0700715061
ISBN-13	978-0-7007-1506-0 / 9780700715060
Zustand	Neuware