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Religious Giving and the Invention of Karma in Theravada Buddhism by James Egge

Religious Giving and the Invention of Karma in Theravada Buddhism

Routledge Studies in Asian Religion

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.

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