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Author : Wendy Doniger,Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0520039238
Author : Christmas Humphreys
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005-07-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135799557
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.
Author : Sri Aurobindo
Publisher : Lotus Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0941524639
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 : Nagapriya
Publisher : Windhorse Publications
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781907314728
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 : Damien Keown
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1996-10-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191606441
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.
Author : Gananath Obeyesekere
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Karma
ISBN : 8120826094
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 : Stephen Phillips
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231144858
For serious yoga practitioners curious to know the ancient origins of the art, Phillips lays out the philosophy of action, knowledge, and devotion, as well as the processes of meditation, reasoning, and self-analysis, that formed the basis of yoga in ancient and classical India.
Author : T. G. Kalghatgi
Publisher : Ahmedabad : L.D. Institute of Indology
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Karma
ISBN : UOM:39015069851007
Author : Norman C. McClelland
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0786456752
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 : Calgary Conference on Karma and Rebirth, Post-Classical Developments (1982 : University of Calgary)
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0873959906
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 : Naomi Appleton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-13
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781107033931
This book explores how multi-life stories served to construct, communicate, and challenge ideas about karma and rebirth within early South Asia.
Author : Roger R. Jackson
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781611809022
"What was the historical context for the Buddha's teachings on rebirth? What is reborn? Do all Buddhist traditions agree about what happens after death? Is it necessary to believe in rebirth to consider oneself a Buddhist? All these questions will be addressed in this short, reliable, and accessible introduction to Rebirth across Buddhist history and traditions. The book will also cover contemporary refutations of rebirth in secular Buddhist contexts as well as western scientific attempts to document reincarnation in conversation with Buddhist beliefs"--
Author : Diana St Ruth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Reincarnation
ISBN : 094667230X
Understanding Karma and Rebirth A Buddhist Perspective Rebirth and reincarnation are generally accepted realities in the East and have been since ancient times. What the next life will be is usually the question rather than whether it will be. In the West, on the other hand, we have our own religious and secular beliefs which usually do not include living another life, or at least not in this world or in this way. A common idea amongst Westerners is that annihilation is an unavoidable fact: 'When you're dead you're dead ' But unless one wakes up to the truth of it - East or West - one is caught in cultural conditioning and personal beliefs. Buddhism is about becoming aware of what life actually is rather than being blinded by beliefs and conditioning. The Buddha saw life as a changing procession of conditions, events, and circumstances, one thing leading to another without beginning or end, timeless and limitless. And he recognised that the part of ourselves which is aware, which sees and knows, is never born and never dies. He spoke of a direct 'seeing' into the nature of existence beyond words, beyond the intellect. Understanding the cause and effect process - the nature of karma and rebirth - and what lies behind it is the underlying message of this book. Diana St Ruth points out that Buddhism is a personal journey of discovery which involves seeing through one's own delusions. She leads us by degrees to a place of awareness, clarity of mind, and understanding.
Author : Gananath Obeyesekere
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002-11-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520232433
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.
Author : Mikel Burley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781628922271
Rebirth and the Stream of Life explores the diversity as well as the ethical and religious significance of rebirth beliefs, focusing especially on Hindu and Buddhist traditions but also discussing indigenous religions and ancient Greek thought. Utilizing resources from religious studies, anthropology and theology, an expanded conception of philosophy of religion is exemplified, which takes seriously lived experience rather than treating religious beliefs in isolation from their place in believers' lives. Drawing upon his expertise in interdisciplinary working and Wittgenstein-influenced approaches, Mikel Burley examines several interrelated phenomena, including purported past-life memories, the relationship between metaphysics and ethics, efforts to 'demythologize' rebirth, and moral critiques of the doctrine of karma. This range of topics, with rebirth as a unifying theme, makes the book of value to anyone interested in philosophy, the study of religions, and what it means to believe that we undergo multiple lives.