TY  - BOOK
AU  - Appleton,Naomi
TI  - Narrating karma and rebirth: Buddhist and Jain multi-life stories 
SN  - 9781139523998
AV  - BL2015.K3 A73 2014eb
U1  - 294.3/4237 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Karma
KW  - Reincarnation
KW  - Buddhist literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Jaina literature
KW  - Réincarnation
KW  - Littérature bouddhique
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Littérature jaïna
KW  - reincarnation
KW  - aat
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Comparative Religion
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Cover; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; A note on sources and terms; Chapter 1 Introduction; Setting the scene; Fatalism and karma; Memory; Women; Gods and hell-beings; Multi-life stories in teachings; Chapter 2 Karma and the realms of rebirth; The animal realm; In and out of the animal realm; Plants and other single-sensed beings; The hell realms; The heaven realms; Spirit deities; The realm of the pretas; Life as a human being; Chapter 3 Karma and human potentiality; Human men and human women; Human actions and their results; Taking life; Sexual improprietyLying and false teachers: Makkhali Gosāla and Devadatta; Giving and renunciation; Happy endings; Heavenly rewards; Moksa/Nirvāna; The halfway house: Mahāvideha and Maitreya; Conclusion; Chapter 4 Jinas and Buddhas; Moral exemplars; Ideal paths and ideal goals; The doctrinal context: perfections, predictions and progress; A lesson in contrast: Gautama Buddha and Mahāvīra; Escaping karma: negative forces and the ultimate goal; Heaven and moksa: the Pārśva jātaka; The past and the future; The Universal History; The time to come; Conclusion; Chapter 5 Karma and community; Merit transferInterpersonal karmic bonds; Shared merit; Bonds of love; Bonds of hate; Bonds of contrast or confusion; Conclusion; Chapter 6 Memory and omniscience; Who can remember their past lives?; Superhumans; Gods and hell-beings; Animals; What does the memory prompt?; Being good again; Avoiding bad actions; Quitting the world; The limits of memory; The advantages of not remembering; The perils of incomplete memory; Omniscience; 'Remembering' the future; Conclusion; Chapter 7 Conclusion; Stories; Karma and rebirth; The moment of death; The role of intention; Good karma?; Buddhist and Jain traditionsAppendix: texts referred to in this book; Antakrddaśāh (Prākrit Antagadadasao; Ten [Teachings on] End-makers); Anuttaraupapātikadaśāh (Prākrit Anuttarovavāiyadasao; Ten [Teachings on] the Arisers in the Highest Heavens); Anguttara Nikāya, see Theravāda Nikāyas; Apadāna (Reaping [the Results of Actions]); Aupapātika Sūtra (Prākrit Uvavāiya Sūya; Discourse on Arisers); Avadānaśataka (One Hundred Avadānas); Āvaśyaka (Required Duties) and commentaries; Bhagavatī Sūtra, or Vyākhyāprajñapti (Prākrit Viyāha Panṇạtti; Proclamation of Explanations); Brhatkathākośa (Great Treasury of Stories) of HarisenaBuddhavamsa (Lineage of the Buddhas); Cariyāpitaka (Basket of Conduct); Dhammapada-atthakathā (Commentary on the Dhammapada); Dīgha Nikāya, see Theravāda Nikāyas; Divyāvadāna (Divine Avadānas); Jātakamālā (Garland of Birth Stories) by Āryaśūra; Jātakatthavannanā (Birth Stories Commentary); Jñātādharmakathāh (Prākrit Nāyādhammakahāo; Examples and Religious Stories); Kalpāvatamsikā, see Nirayāvaliyāsuyakkhandha; Mahāpurāna of Jinasena and Gunabhadra; Mahāvastu (The Great Story); Majjhima Nikāya, see Theravāda Nikāyas
N2  - Buddhism and Jainism share the concepts of karma, rebirth, and the desirability of escaping from rebirth. The literature of both traditions contains many stories about past, and sometimes future, lives which reveal much about these foundational doctrines. Naomi Appleton carefully explores how multi-life stories served to construct, communicate, and challenge ideas about karma and rebirth within early South Asia, examining portrayals of the different realms of rebirth, the potential paths and goals of human beings, and the biographies of ideal religious figures. Appleton also deftly surveys the ability of karma to bind individuals together over multiple lives, and the nature of the supernormal memory that makes multi-life stories available in the first place. This original study not only sheds light on the individual preoccupations of Buddhist and Jain tradition, but contributes to a more complete history of religious thought in South Asia, and brings to the foreground long-neglected narrative sources
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