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James Egge
Religious Giving and the Invention of Karma in Theravada Buddhism [PDF 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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Formato PDF ● Páginas 208 ● ISBN 9781136859151 ● Editorial Taylor and Francis ● Publicado 2013 ● Descargable 6 veces ● Divisa EUR ● ID 2858939 ● Protección de copia Adobe DRM

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