Religious Giving and the Invention of Karma in Theravada Buddhism (Routledge Studies in Asian Religion) (Hardcover)

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Religious Giving and the Invention of Karma in Theravada Buddhism (Routledge Studies in Asian Religion) (Hardcover)

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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.
Product Details ISBN: 9780700715060
ISBN-10: 0700715061
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: March 21st, 2002
Pages: 204
Language: English
Series: Routledge Studies in Asian Religion