Religious Giving and the Invention of Karma in Theravada Buddhism - Curzon Studies in Asian Religions

Egge, James

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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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Book information

ISBN:	9780700715060
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Imprint:	Routledge
Pub date:	21 Mar 2002
DEWEY:	294.391
DEWEY edition:	21
Language:	English
Number of pages:	288
Weight:	363g
Height:	230mm
Width:	169mm
Spine width:	20mm