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020 _a9781139523998 (ebook)
020 _z9781107033931 (hardback)
020 _z9781107566149 (paperback)
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050 0 0 _aBL2015.K3
_bA73 2014
082 0 0 _a294.3/4237
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100 1 _aAppleton, Naomi,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aNarrating Karma and Rebirth :
_bBuddhist and Jain Multi-Life Stories / [electronic resource]
_cNaomi Appleton.
246 3 _aNarrating Karma & Rebirth
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2014.
300 _a1 online resource (244 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015).
520 _aBuddhism 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.
650 0 _aKarma
650 0 _aReincarnation
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9781107033931
856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139523998
_zCambridge Books Online
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