Religious Giving and the Invention of Karma in Theravada Buddhism

• Author(s): James Egge,
• Publisher: Routledge
• Pages: 208
• ISBN_10: 1136859225
  ISBN_13: 9781136859229
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Social Science / Ethnic Studies / General , Social Science / Regional Studies , Religion / General , Social Science / Human Geography , Religion / Buddhism / General ,

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.