Religious Giving and the Invention of Karma in Theravada Buddhism

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.

• | Author: James Egge
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Mar 21, 2002
• | Number of Pages: 204 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 0700715061
• | ISBN-13: 9780700715060