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Karma / Johannes Bronkhorst.
LIBRA BL2015.K3 B76 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bronkhorst, Johannes, 1946-2025.
- Series:
- Dimensions of Asian spirituality
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Karma.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 129 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2011]
- Summary:
- Despite karma now being a widely-known term, its connotations of rebirth and retribution have a complex genesis. Bronkhorst (Sanskrit and Indian studies, U. of Lausanne, Switzerland) presents an accessible entree into the historical, religious, and cultural roots, implications, and early controversies over the concept in Buddhist, Jain, and Brahman thought. He also discusses parallels with Christian ideas of God's retribution. The book includes suggested further reading. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- Origins and religious use
- Karma in and after Greater Magadha
- Karma in Brahmanism
- Karma and philosophy
- Transfer of merit
- Competitors of karma
- From one life to the next
- Devotion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780824835705
- 0824835700
- 9780824835910
- 0824835913
- OCLC:
- 702357815
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