Karma and rebirth in classical Indian traditions /Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty, editor ; sponsored by the Joint Committee on South Asia of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies.
- Berkeley : University of California Press, (c)1980.
- xxv, 342 pages ; 25 cm.
Papers from two conferences, the first held near Seattle, Washington , Oct. 22-23, 1976, and the second in Pasadena, California, Jan. 26-29, 1978.
Karma and rebirth in the Vedas and Puranas The concepts of human action and rebirth in the Mahabharata Karma and rebirth in the Dharmasastras Caraka Samhita on the doctrine of karma The theory of reincarnation among the Tamils The rebirth eschatology and its transformations : a contribution to the sociology of early Buddhism Karma and rebirth in early Buddhism The medical soteriology of karma in the Buddhist Tantric tradition Karma and the problem of rebirth in Jainism The karma theory and its interpretation in some Indian philosophical systems Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty -- J. Bruce Long -- Ludo Rocher -- Mitchell G. Weiss -- George L. Hart, III -- Gananath Obeyesekere -- James P. McDermott -- William Stablein -- Padmanabh S. Jaini -- Karl H. Potter. Karma, Apurva, and "natural" causes : observations on the growth and limits of the theory of Samsara Karma as a "sociology of knowledge" or "social psychology" of process-praxis Wilhelm Halbfass -- Gerald James Larson.