TY - JOUR
T1 - 'Heir to One's Karma: Multi-life Personal Genealogies in Early Buddhist and Jain Narratives'
AU - Appleton, Naomi
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PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Buddhist and Jain texts contain many stories that trace a person’s biography through multiple lives, illustrating karmic consequences, progress towards spiritual goals, and the preservation or deconstruction of relationships across several births. These stories can be seen as a form of genealogy, since they explain a person’s identity and form an alternative lineage to the family. This paper explores the ways in which karmic genealogies are constructed in some early Buddhist and Jain narratives, and how these interact with other forms of lineage, namely the family and networks of significant religious figures.
AB - Buddhist and Jain texts contain many stories that trace a person’s biography through multiple lives, illustrating karmic consequences, progress towards spiritual goals, and the preservation or deconstruction of relationships across several births. These stories can be seen as a form of genealogy, since they explain a person’s identity and form an alternative lineage to the family. This paper explores the ways in which karmic genealogies are constructed in some early Buddhist and Jain narratives, and how these interact with other forms of lineage, namely the family and networks of significant religious figures.
U2 - 10.1558/rosa.v5i1/2.227
DO - 10.1558/rosa.v5i1/2.227
M3 - Article
SN - 1751-2689
VL - 5
SP - 227
EP - 244
JO - Religions of South Asia
JF - Religions of South Asia
IS - 1-2
ER -