Religious Giving and the Invention of Karma in Theravada BuddhismPsychology Press, 2002 - 193 Seiten 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. |
Inhalt
The Discourse of Sacrifice | 15 |
The Discourse of Karma | 41 |
Representations of Vedic sacrifice in karmic prose | 52 |
Why karma? | 60 |
The Centrality of Sacrifice | 71 |
The Commentaries Karmic Retelling | 89 |
Giving as Sacrifice Karma and Heroic | 101 |
The social context of giving and of progress toward nirvāņa | 113 |
Notes | 119 |
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| 189 | |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
act of giving Anguttara Apadāna argues arhat arhatship ascetic Aśoka aspirations attainment Brāhmaṇ Brahmanical Buddha Buddhist Buddhist monastics canonical prose canonical texts chapter commentary dakkhiņā dakṣiņā dedication dāna dedication of dakṣiņā deity describe devatā Dhammapala Dharma doctrine donor Early Buddhism edited effects eschatology Ethics field for merit fruit gāthās ghost gift Gombrich heaven hell human Indian inscriptions Jain Jātaka kamma karma Karma and Rebirth karmic discourse king Mahāyāna meaning mental purification meritorious action meritorious acts meritorious deed monks narratives nirvāņa offering Pāli canon Pali Text Pali Text Society passages performance person peta Petavatthu practice present produce puñña purificatory Pv-a reborn refers Religions religious rite ritual sacrifice sacrificial discourse sacrificial verses Sakka Sangha sankhāra Sanskrit Sariputta Schmithausen Schopen Sihalavatthuppakarana sila similarly soteriology stories Sutta Theravada Buddhism Theravādin tradition understanding University Press Uposatha Vedic Vessantara vimāna Vimanavatthu Vinaya Vv-a worship worthy recipients yakkha yakṣa
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