O' Flaherty Wendy Doniger

Karma And Rabirth In classical Indian traditions/ Doniger O' Flaherty Wendy

PART I. HINDUISM AND ITS ROOTS
1. Karma and Rebirth in the Vedas and Puranas
WENDY DONIGER OTLAHERTY
2. The Concepts of Human Action and Rebirth in the
Mahabharata
J. BRUCE LONG
3. Karma and Rebirth in the Dharmasastras
LUDO ROCHER
4. Caraka Samhita on the Doctrine of Karma
MITCHELL G. WEISS
5. The Theory of Reincarnation among the Tamils
GEORGE L. HART, III
PART II. BUDDHISM AND JAINISM
6. The Rebirth Eschatology and Its Transformations:
A Contribution to the Sociology of Early Buddhism
GANANATH OBEYESEKERE
7. Karma and Rebirth in Early Buddhism
JAMES P. MCDERMOTT
8. The Medical Soteriology of Karma
in the Buddhist Tantric Tradition
WILLIAM STABLEIN
9. Karma and the Problem of Rebirth in Jainism
PADMANABH S. JAINI
PART III. PHILOSOPHICAL TRADITIONS
10. The Karma Theory and Its Interpretation in Some
Indian Philosophical Systems
KARL H. POTTER
11. Karma, Apurva, and "Natural" Causes: Observations on
the Growth and Limits of the Theory of Samsara
WILHELM HALBFASS
12. Karma as a "Sociology of Knowledge" or
"Social Psychology" of Process/Praxis
GERALD JAMES LARSON
List of Participants in the First Two American Council of
Learned Societies—Social Science Research Council
Karma Conferences
Bibliography


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