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Of ancestors and ghosts : how Preta narratives constructed Buddhist cosmology and shaped Buddhist ethics /

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Main Author: McNicholl, Adeana (Author)
Corporate Author: Oxford Academic
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2024.
Edition:1.
Subjects:
Causation (Buddhism)
Karma > Buddhism.
Death > Religious aspects > Buddhism.
Causalité (Bouddhisme)
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Entering the Realm of the Pretas
  • Part I. Constructing the Preta Realm: 1. From Ancestor to Ghost: The Development of the Preta and Its Realm
  • 2. The Fruits of False Views: Arguments for Karma in Preta Narratives
  • Part II. Karma and Embodiment: 3. Consuming the Fruits of One's Own Actions: Wealth, Class, and Caste
  • 4. Virile Householders and Fertile Wives: Gender and Sexuality in This World and the Next
  • 5. Decaying, Dying, Decomposing: The Aesthetics of Disgust and the Production of the Ethical Subject
  • Conclusion: The Afterlives of Preta Narratives
  • Works Cited.