Author: Gananath Obeyesekere
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520232437
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
With 'Imagining Karma', Gananath Obeyesekere embarks on the comparison of rebirth concepts across a wide range of cultures. The book makes a case for disciplined comparison, a humane view of human nature, and a theoretical understanding of 'family resemblances' and differences across great cultural divides.
Imagining Karma
Author: Gananath Obeyesekere
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520232437
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
With 'Imagining Karma', Gananath Obeyesekere embarks on the comparison of rebirth concepts across a wide range of cultures. The book makes a case for disciplined comparison, a humane view of human nature, and a theoretical understanding of 'family resemblances' and differences across great cultural divides.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520232437
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
With 'Imagining Karma', Gananath Obeyesekere embarks on the comparison of rebirth concepts across a wide range of cultures. The book makes a case for disciplined comparison, a humane view of human nature, and a theoretical understanding of 'family resemblances' and differences across great cultural divides.
Amerindian Rebirth and Buddhist Karma
Author: Gananath Obeyesekere
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789069841588
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789069841588
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
Karma and Rebirth
Author: Gananath Obeyesekere
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
ISBN: 9788120826090
Category : Karma
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
ISBN: 9788120826090
Category : Karma
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
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.
Karma and Rebirth in Classical Indian Traditions
Author: Wendy Doniger
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520039230
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520039230
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Exploring Karma and Rebirth
Author: Nagapriya
Publisher: Windhorse Publications
ISBN: 1907314725
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Windhorse Publications
ISBN: 1907314725
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
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.
Karma and Rebirth
Author: Christmas Humphreys
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135799555
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135799555
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
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.
Buddhism: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Damien Keown
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN: 0191606448
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
This Very Short Introduction introduces the reader to the teachings of the Buddha and to the integration of Buddhism into daily life. What are the distinctive features of Buddhism? Who was the Buddha, and what are his teachings? How has Buddhist thought developed over the centuries, and how can contemporary dilemmas be faced from a Buddhist perspective? Words such as 'karma' and 'nirvana' have entered our vocabulary, but what do they mean? Damien Keown's book provides a lively, informative response to these frequently asked questions about Buddhism.
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN: 0191606448
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
This Very Short Introduction introduces the reader to the teachings of the Buddha and to the integration of Buddhism into daily life. What are the distinctive features of Buddhism? Who was the Buddha, and what are his teachings? How has Buddhist thought developed over the centuries, and how can contemporary dilemmas be faced from a Buddhist perspective? Words such as 'karma' and 'nirvana' have entered our vocabulary, but what do they mean? Damien Keown's book provides a lively, informative response to these frequently asked questions about Buddhism.
Narrating Karma and Rebirth
Author: Naomi Appleton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139916408
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139916408
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
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.
Karma and Rebirth
Author: Ronald W. Neufeldt
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438414455
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
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.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438414455
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
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.
Karma and the Rebirth of Consciousness
Author: Bodo Balsys
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description