Religious Giving and the Invention of Karma in Theravada Buddhism

James Egge (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

2015
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-86262-3 (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	4.3.2015
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Studies in Asian Religion
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	249 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
ISBN-10	1-138-86262-2 / 1138862622
ISBN-13	978-1-138-86262-3 / 9781138862623
Zustand	Neuware