ABSTRACT
Demonstrates that Buddhists appropriated the practice, vocabulary, and ideology of sacrifice from Vedic religion, and discusses the relationship of this sacrificial discourse to ideas of karma in the Pali canon and in early Buddhism.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|55 pages
Sacrifice and Karma in Didactic Verse and Discursive Prose
part 2|46 pages
Sacrifice and Karma in Narrative
