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- Title: Religious Giving and the Invention of Karma in Theravada Buddhism
- Author : James Egge
- Release Date : January 16, 2013
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 3962 KB
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.