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James Egge
Religious Giving and the Invention of Karma in Theravada Buddhism [EPUB ebook]

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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.

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Format EPUB ● Seiten 208 ● ISBN 9781136859229 ● Verlag Taylor and Francis ● Erscheinungsjahr 2013 ● herunterladbar 6 mal ● Währung EUR ● ID 2858940 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM

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