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" Karma and rebirth in classical Indian traditions / "
Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty, editor ; sponsored by the Joint Committee on South Asia of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies
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706338
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b528527
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Karma and rebirth in classical Indian traditions /\ Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty, editor ; sponsored by the Joint Committee on South Asia of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies
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Berkeley :: University of California Press,, [1980]
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, ©1980
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xxv, 342 pages ;; 25 cm
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0520039238
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: 9780520039230
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Papers from two conferences, the first held near Seattle, Wash., Oct. 22-23, 1976, and the second in Pasadena, Calif., Jan. 26-29, 1978
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-329) and index
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Karma and Rebirth in the Vedas and Puranas / Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty -- The Concepts of Human Action and Rebirth in the Mahabharata / J. Bruce Long -- Karma and Rebirth in the Dharmasastras / Ludo Rocher -- Caraka Samhita on the Doctrine of Karma / Mitchell G. Weiss -- The Theory of Reincarnation among the Tamils / George L. Hart, III -- The Rebirth Eschatology and Its Transformations: A Contribution to the Sociology of Early Buddhism / James P. McDermott -- The Medical Soteriology of Karma in the Buddhist Tantric Tradition / William Stablein -- Karma and the Problem of Rebirth in Jainism / Padmanabh S. Jaini -- The Karma Theory and Its Interpretation in Some Indian Philosophical Systems / Karl H. Potter -- Karma, Apurva, and "Natural" Causes: Observations on the Growth and Limits of the Theory of Samsara / Wilhelm Halbfass -- Karma as a "Sociology of Knowledge" or "Social Psychology" of Process/Praxis / Gerald James Larson
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Karma
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Reincarnation
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Reencarnación
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294
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BL2015.K3K37
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Doniger, Wendy
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Joint Committee on South Asia
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