 | Religious Giving and the Invention of Karma in Theravada Buddhism Subjects: Area Studies; Humanities; Asian Studies; Religion; Chinese Studies; South Asian Studies; South East Asian Studies; Buddhism; Asian Studies (General); 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. |
