Religious Giving and the Invention of Karma in Theravada Buddhism
By James Egge
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- ISBN: 978-0-7007-1506-0
- Binding: Hardback
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 21st March 2002
- Pages: 208
About the Book
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.