Development in the Early Buddhist Concept of Kamma/karma
Author : James Paul McDermott
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Page : 210 pages
File Size : 33,69 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Art
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Author : James Paul McDermott
Publisher :
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 33,69 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Art
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Author : James P. McDermott
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Page : pages
File Size : 49,35 MB
Release : 1984-01-01
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ISBN : 9780836425420
Author : James Paul MacDermott
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Page : 201 pages
File Size : 42,10 MB
Release : 1984
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ISBN : 9788121501170
Author : James Paul McDermott
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Page : 496 pages
File Size : 35,29 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Buddha (The concept)
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Author : James Paul McDermott
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Page : 496 pages
File Size : 13,53 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Buddhist ethics
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Author : James Paul MacDermott
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Page : pages
File Size : 38,77 MB
Release : 1984
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Author : Y. Krishan
Publisher : Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,15 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9788120812338
ABOUT THE BOOK:Here is a work that deals with the Doctrine of Karma in all its coMprehensiveness and covers all its conceiveable facets in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. Essentially the approach is historical. It traces the genesis of the doctrine in
Author : Nagapriya
Publisher : Windhorse Publications
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 22,55 MB
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1907314725
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 : Charles Henry Spurgeon Ward
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Page : 46 pages
File Size : 25,56 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Buddhism
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Author : The Pa-Auk Tawya Sayadaw
Publisher : Pa-Auk Meditation Centre (Singapore)
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 50,64 MB
Release : 2012-10-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 981073512X
Over the years, as he has encountered 'Western Buddhists', meditation master the Most Venerable Pa-Auk Tawya Sayadaw has seen the need for a thorough explanation of the workings of kamma in English. To that end he has composed The Workings of Kamma. It is a detailed analysis and discussion of the workings of kamma, in accordance with the Pali Texts: Vinaya, suttas, Abhidhamma, and the authoritative commentaries and subcommentaries. First, the Most Venerable Sayadaw gives a detailed discussion of how beings run on from life to life because of a belief in self, founded in craving and ignorance: he explains how those two factors are prime movers in the working of kamma. Next, he gives a comprehensive and practical analysis of the workings of kamma according to the roots of consciousness. That includes a practical and systematic analysis of the three merit-work bases: offering, morality, and meditation. Then, he analyses the ten courses of unwholesome and wholesome kamma: killing, stealing, sexual misconduct, etc., and non-killing, non-stealing, etc. He discusses also the results of kamma: rebirth in hell, as a ghost, animal, human-, or celestial being. Mundane wholesome kamma unique to a Buddha's Dispensation he discusses as knowledge and conduct: necessary for future attainment of Nibbāna. Afterwards, he explains The Buddha's twelve categories of kamma: four for time of effect, four for order of effect, and four for function of effect. And he discusses how they operate over past, future, and present, and how their workings depend also on the achievement/failure of a certain rebirth, appearance, time, and means. Then comes a lengthy discussion of 'The Small Kamma-Analysis Sutta'. There The Buddha discusses how kamma accounts for the superiority/ inferiority of people. Next is a discussion of how a being's kamma 'paints a picture' of a being, who is in fact nothing more than the five aggregates. And finally, there is a detailed discussion of the gradual unworking of the potency of kamma with the insight knowledges leading up to the Stream-Entry Path Knowledge, etc. up to Arahantship. It ends with a detailed discussion of the Arahant's Parinibbāna, and what this means in practical terms. The Most Venerable Sayadaw gives many examples, with continuous reference to the Pali Texts. He cites and explains also the dangers of holding to a wrong view that denies the workings of kamma. And he explains the necessity for seeing the workings of kamma oneself with direct knowledge, explaining that one is otherwise unable to understand the Second Noble Truth: the Noble Truth of the Origin of Suffering. There is also a detailed analysis of the transition from one life to the next, and many charts help the reader understand the explanations on the practical level of consciousness and mental factors. [From a book published by Pa-Auk Meditation Centre, a Centre of Theravāda Buddhist Tradition]