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Narrating Karma and Rebirth: Buddhist and Jain Multi-life Stories |
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Appleton, Naomi (著)
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| Date | 2014.02 |
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| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
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https://www.cambridge.org/
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| Location | Cambridge, UK [劍橋, 英國] |
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| Content type | 書籍=Book |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | Author Affiliations: University of Edinburgh |
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| Keyword | Area Studies; Buddhism and Eastern Religions; Asian Studies; Religion |
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| Abstract | 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. |
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| Table of contents | Preface ix
A note on sources and terms xi
Chapter 1 - Introduction 1
Chapter 2 - Karma and the realms of rebirth 20
Chapter 3 - Karma and human potentiality 60
Chapter 4 - Jinas and Buddhas 90
Chapter 5 - Karma and community 126
Chapter 6 - Memory and omniscience 157
Chapter 7 - Conclusion 191
Appendix: texts referred to in this book 201
Bibliography 209
Index 225 |
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| ISBN | 9781139523998 (e-book); 9781107033931 (Hardback) |
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| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139523998 |
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| Hits | 149 |
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| Created date | 2021.02.22 |
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