Narrating Karma And Rebirth

Author : Naomi Appleton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139916408
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narrating Karma and Rebirth written by Naomi Appleton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-13 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buddhism and Jainism share the concepts of karma, rebirth, and the desirability of escaping from rebirth. The literature of both traditions contains many stories about past, and sometimes future, lives which reveal much about these foundational doctrines. Naomi Appleton carefully explores how multi-life stories served to construct, communicate, and challenge ideas about karma and rebirth within early South Asia, examining portrayals of the different realms of rebirth, the potential paths and goals of human beings, and the biographies of ideal religious figures. Appleton also deftly surveys the ability of karma to bind individuals together over multiple lives, and the nature of the supernormal memory that makes multi-life stories available in the first place. This original study not only sheds light on the individual preoccupations of Buddhist and Jain tradition, but contributes to a more complete history of religious thought in South Asia, and brings to the foreground long-neglected narrative sources.

Author : Nagapriya
Publisher : Windhorse Publications
ISBN 13 : 1907314725
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exploring Karma and Rebirth written by Nagapriya and published by Windhorse Publications. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring Karma & Rebirth helps us to unravel the complexities of these two important but often misunderstood Buddhist doctrines. This thought-provoking book clarifies these traditional Buddhist teachings, examines them in relation to their cultural origins, considers how they are still relevant today, and offers an imaginative reading of what the teachings could mean for us now. Above all, Exploring Karma & Rebirth insists that, to be of enduring value, these doctrines must continue to serve the overriding aim of Buddhism: spiritual awakening.

Author : Naomi Appleton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107033934
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narrating Karma and Rebirth written by Naomi Appleton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-13 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how multi-life stories served to construct, communicate, and challenge ideas about karma and rebirth within early South Asia.

Author : Sri Aurobindo
Publisher : Lotus Press
ISBN 13 : 9780941524636
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rebirth and Karma written by Sri Aurobindo and published by Lotus Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In-depth study of the concepts of rebirth, karma and the higher lines of karma. One of the best introductions to this area we have ever found. Index.

Author : Wendy Doniger
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520039230
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Karma and Rebirth in Classical Indian Traditions written by Wendy Doniger and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gananath Obeyesekere
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
ISBN 13 : 9788120826090
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Karma and Rebirth written by Gananath Obeyesekere and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publishe. This book was released on 2006 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Karma and Rebirth: A Cross Cultural Study on the very first comparison of rebirth concepts across a wide range of cultures. Exploring in rich detail the beliefs of small scale indigenous societies of West Africa, Melanesia, and North America, Obeyesekere compares their ideas with those of the ancient and modern Indic civilizations and with the Greek rebirth theories of Pythagoras, Empedocles, Pindar and Plato. His groundbreaking and authoritiative discussion decenters the popular notion that India was the origin and locus of ideas of rebirth.

Author : Calgary Conference on Karma and Rebirth, Post-Classical Developments (1982 : University of Calgary)
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873959902
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Karma and Rebirth written by Calgary Conference on Karma and Rebirth, Post-Classical Developments (1982 : University of Calgary) and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karma and Rebirth: Post Classical Developments explains the religious concepts most central to Asian philosophy, religion, and society, presenting articles representative of contemporary understanding and practice. The contributors look not only at the understanding of karma and rebirth in modern India, but also in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia, Tibet, China, Japan, and the Western world. This broad treatment underscores the fact that karma and rebirth have become part of the religious history and cultural fabric of the Western world. The collection is divided into three sections. Part I deals with figures and movements of the Hindu renaissance in India in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Part II on Buddhism deals with Indian, Chinese, Tibetan, and Japanese treatments of karma. Part III is devoted to the influence of karma and rebirth in the Western world through theosophy, new religious movements, and recent developments in psychology.

Author : T. G. Kalghatgi
Publisher : Ahmedabad : L.D. Institute of Indology
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Karma and Rebirth written by T. G. Kalghatgi and published by Ahmedabad : L.D. Institute of Indology. This book was released on 1972 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Norman C. McClelland
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786456758
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Reincarnation and Karma written by Norman C. McClelland and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring over 1,200 topical entries arranged alphabetically, this encyclopedia provides diverse and detailed coverage of the related subjects of reincarnation and karma. Its in-depth examination ranges from ancient beliefs to those of the present, incorporating all relevant world cultures. A series of broad thematic entries cover foundational aspects while over a thousand highly focused entries deal with various societies and organizations which support the concepts of reincarnation and karma; specific religious groups, sects, and associations; key individuals both historic and modern; and related beliefs, concepts, and practices.

Author : Christmas Humphreys
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135799555
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Karma and Rebirth written by Christmas Humphreys and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-18 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karma, the law of cause and effect, of nature's retribution for lost harmony, and Rebirth, from which it is inseperable, have been described as the oldest doctrine in the world. In today's turmoil, an understanding of Karma is one of the foundations on which we can build a more reasonable world.