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020			_a9781139523998 (ebook)
020			_z9781107033931 (hardback)
020			_z9781107566149 (paperback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP _dBD-SySUS.
050	0	0	_aBL2015.K3 _bA73 2014
082	0	0	_a294.3/4237 _223
100	1		_aAppleton, Naomi, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aNarrating Karma and Rebirth : _bBuddhist and Jain Multi-Life Stories / _cNaomi Appleton.
246	3		_aNarrating Karma & Rebirth
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2014.
300			_a1 online resource (244 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
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
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
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