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Checking the Heavenly ‘Bank Account of Karma': Cognitive Metaphors for Karma in Western Perception and Early Theravāda Buddhism |
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Schlieter, Jens
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| Source |
Religion
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| Volume | v.43 n.4 |
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| Date | 2013 |
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| Pages | 463 - 486 |
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| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
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http://www.tandf.co.uk/
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| Location | Abingdon, UK [阿賓登, 英國] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | Author affiliations
Institute for the Science of Religion & Center for Global Studies, University of Berne , Vereinsweg 23, 3012 , Bern , Switzerland
Author notes
Jens Schlieter - This article was originally published with incorrect submission and acceptance dates. This version has been corrected. |
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| Keyword | karma; Buddhism; religions; ‘karma-account’ metaphor; European Buddhology; conceptual metaphor theory; works-righteousness |
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| Abstract | To visualize the accumulation of good and bad karma in terms of credit or debt in a bank account is a common feature in works on Buddhism and other Indian traditions. Applying conceptual metaphor theory, this article tracks the metaphorical framework of understanding karma as a kind of ‘heavenly bank account’ back to its roots in early European scholarship. Based on a comparison with metaphors for karma to be found in Pāli texts of the Theravāda tradition, namely, the analogies of ripening, inheritance, and the dark/bright dichotomy, this article argues that the ‘bank-account’ imagery differs in significant – if subtle – respects from these emic metaphors, displaying certain Judeo-Christian preconceptions of moral bookkeeping, sin, and salvation. |
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| ISSN | 0048721X (P); 10961151 (E) |
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| Hits | 452 |
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| Created date | 2015.01.26 |
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| Modified date | 2019.12.16 |
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