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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 ● Pages 208 ● ISBN 9781136859229 ● Publisher Taylor and Francis ● Published 2013 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2858940 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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