Religious Giving and the Invention of Karma in Theravada Buddhism (Routledge Studies in Asian Religion)
Book Details
Author(s)
James Egge
Publisher
Routledge
ISBN / ASIN
0700715061
ISBN-13
9780700715060
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Description
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.
