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Pages: 437
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: BRILL
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Language: en
Pages: 303
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-02-14 - Publisher: BRILL
This book deals with the confrontation of Buddhism and Brahmanism in India. Both depended on support from the royal court, but Buddhism had less to offer in ret
Language: en
Pages: 153
Pages: 153
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-08-24 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Karma has become a household word in the modern world, where it is associated with the belief in rebirth determined by one’s deeds in earlier lives. This beli
Language: en
Pages: 590
Pages: 590
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-03-21 - Publisher: BRILL
This is the first study to systematically confront the question how Brahmanism, which was geographically limited and under threat during the final centuries BCE