Exploring Karma and Rebirth

2012-05-31
 |  Philosophy
Exploring Karma and Rebirth

Author: Nagapriya

Publisher: Windhorse Publications

ISBN: 9781907314728

Category: Philosophy

Page: 160

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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

1986-05-31
 |  Religion
Karma and Rebirth

Author: Ronald W. Neufeldt

Publisher: State University of New York Press

ISBN: 9781438414454

Category: Religion

Page: 380

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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 Rebirth in Classical Indian Traditions

2018-05-18
 |  Social Science
Karma and Rebirth in Classical Indian Traditions

Author: Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty

Publisher: University of California Press

ISBN: 9780520302174

Category: Social Science

Page: 370

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Karma is perhaps the most famous concept in Indian philosophy, but this is the first comprehensive study of its various meanings and philosophical implications. Karma and Rebirth in Classical Indian Traditions offers a harmony of approach and an underlying set of methodological assumptions: a corpus of definitions of karma, a dialectic between abstract theory and historical explanation, and an awareness of logical oppositions in theories of karma. No “solution” to the paradox of karma is offered, but the volume as a whole presents a consistent and encompassing approach to the many different, often conflicting, Indian statements of the problem. Broad in scope and richly detailed, this book demonstrates the impossibility of speaking of “the theory of karma” and supplies the basis for further study. Exploring methodological issues arising in the study of a non-Western system of soteriology and rebirth, the contributors question the interaction of medical and philosophical models of the human body, the incorporation of philosophical theories into practical religions with which they are logically incompatible, and the problem of historical reconstruction of a complex theory of human life. This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980.

Karma and Rebirth

2005-07-18
 |  Social Science
Karma and Rebirth

Author: Christmas Humphreys

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781135799557

Category: Social Science

Page: 110

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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.

Karma and Rebirth

1986-01-01
 |  Religion
Karma and Rebirth

Author: Calgary Conference on Karma and Rebirth, Post-Classical Developments (1982 : University of Calgary)

Publisher: SUNY Press

ISBN: 0873959906

Category: Religion

Page: 380

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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 Rebirth

2006
 |  Karma
Karma and Rebirth

Author: Gananath Obeyesekere

Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe

ISBN: 8120826094

Category: Karma

Page: 482

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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.

Rebirth and Karma

1991
 |  Philosophy
Rebirth and Karma

Author: Sri Aurobindo

Publisher: Lotus Press

ISBN: 0941524639

Category: Philosophy

Page: 196

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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.

Understanding Karma and Rebirth

2008
 |  Reincarnation
Understanding Karma and Rebirth

Author: Diana St Ruth

Publisher:

ISBN: 094667230X

Category: Reincarnation

Page: 0

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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.

Encyclopedia of Reincarnation and Karma

2018-10-15
 |  Religion
Encyclopedia of Reincarnation and Karma

Author: Norman C. McClelland

Publisher: McFarland

ISBN: 0786456752

Category: Religion

Page: 321

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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.

Narrating Karma and Rebirth

2014-02-13
 |  Philosophy
Narrating Karma and Rebirth

Author: Naomi Appleton

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 9781107033931

Category: Philosophy

Page: 245

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This book explores how multi-life stories served to construct, communicate, and challenge ideas about karma and rebirth within early South Asia.

Karma and Rebirth

1972
 |  Karma
Karma and Rebirth

Author: T. G. Kalghatgi

Publisher: Ahmedabad : L.D. Institute of Indology

ISBN: UOM:39015069851007

Category: Karma

Page: 98

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