Religious Giving and the Invention of Karma in Theravada Buddhism

ebook Routledge Studies in Asian Religion

By James Egge

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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.
Religious Giving and the Invention of Karma in Theravada Buddhism