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With Imagining Karma, Gananath Obeyesekere embarks on the very first comparison of rebirth concepts across a wide range of cultures. Exploring in rich detail the beliefs of small-scale societies of West Africa, Melanesia, traditional Siberia, Canada, and the northwest coast of North America, Obeyesekere compares their ideas with those of the ancient and modern Indic civilizations and with the Greek rebirth theories of Pythagoras, Empedocles, Pindar, and Plato. His groundbreaking and authoritative discussion decenters the popular notion that India was the origin and locus of ideas of rebirth. As Obeyesekere compares responses to the most fundamental questions of human existence, he challenges readers to reexamine accepted ideas about death, cosmology, morality, and eschatology. Obeyesekere's comprehensive inquiry shows that diverse societies have come through independent invention or borrowing to believe in reincarnation as an integral part of their larger cosmological systems. The author brings together into a coherent methodological framework the thought of such diverse thinkers as Weber, Wittgenstein, and Nietzsche. In a contemporary intellectual context that celebrates difference and cultural relativism, this book makes a case for disciplined comparison, a humane view of human nature, and a theoretical understanding of "family resemblances" and differences across great cultural divides.

Religious ethics --- Reincarnation --- Past-lives regression --- Rebirth --- Regression, Past-lives --- Pre-existence --- Soul --- Theosophy --- Transmigration --- Reincarnation (Buddhism) --- Comparative studies. --- Buddhism. --- Reincarnation-Buddhism.. --- Reincarnation-Comparative studies.. --- Religious ethics-Comparative studies. --- Reincarnation - Buddhism. --- Reincarnation - Comparative studies. --- Religious ethics - Comparative studies. --- amerindian tradition. --- buddhism. --- buddhist tradition. --- canada. --- classicists. --- cosmology. --- cross cultural scholarship. --- cultural relativism. --- cultural stories. --- death. --- empedocles. --- ethics. --- greek tradition. --- human condition. --- indic civilizations. --- indologists. --- intellectual context. --- karma. --- melanesia. --- methodological framework. --- nietzsche. --- personal transformation. --- philosophy. --- pindar. --- plato. --- pythagoras. --- rebirth. --- reincarnation. --- siberia. --- textbooks. --- weber. --- west africa. --- wittgenstein.

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Cet ouvrage se propose, à l'aide de textes du bouddhisme qui s'échelonnent de ses origines jusqu'aux premiers siècles de notre ère, d'illustrer les trois dogmes qui sont partie intégrante de la pensée indienne en général, et du bouddhisme en particulier: l'acte rétributif (karman), les renaissances (jati et la ronde universelle et éternelle de celles-ci sansara ou «transmigration»). La première partie s'intéresse au bouddhisme doctrinal. Sans taire les difficultés, voire les contradictions que ces dogmes offrent pour les esprits occidentaux, notamment parce que le Buddha soutient simultanément la sanction morale des actes et l'inexistence d'une âme substantielle et personnelle, on veut montrer l'omniprésence et la continuité des ces croyances dans les enseignements du fondateur lui-même, dans les œuvres qui débattent à leur propos, ainsi l'«Objet des discussions» (Kathavatthu) ou les «Questions du roi Ménandre» (Milindapanha) puis dans des sources plus tardives comme Buddhaghosa ou l'un ou l'autre penseur du «Grand Véhicule». Au stock des questions fondamentales qui reste le même d'âge en âge et qui concerne par exemple le passage de la mort à la renaissance, qu'elle soit humaine, céleste ou infernale, on a ajouté quelques brèves considérations sur la causalité karmique, sur karman et instinct ou sur l'équivalence samsara-nirvana. La deuxième partie porte sur les dogmes précités tels qu'ils sont vus par le bouddhisme populaire. On aborde dès lors une littérature d'un type très différent: un énorme répertoire de récits et de contes moraux enrichi au long des siècles et où se détachent les Jataka's, c'est-à-dire ces «[récits par le Buddha lui-même de ses] naissances antérieures». On peut y suivre les odyssées transmigratoires de personnages tantôt fameux (le Buddha lui-même, ses disciples, ses contemporains, ses adversaires idéologiques), tantôt anonymes, à qui leurs actes moraux ou immoraux, pieux (envers le Buddha et ses moines) ou impies ont valu de renaître heureux ou malheureux ici-bas, dans les cieux ou les enfers, comme animaux ou fantômes. Cet ensemble narratif destiné à instruire et édifier moines et laïcs bouddhistes permet aussi des remarques diverses, par exemple sur l'anamnèse des vies antérieures ou sur la durée des diverses renaissances et séjours dans les sphères cosmiques.

Transmigration --- Karma. --- Reincarnation. --- Karma --- Réincarnation --- 294.3 Boeddhisme--(algemeen) --- 294.3 Boeddhisme:--verder in te delen zoals 291.1/.8 --- Boeddhisme--(algemeen) --- Boeddhisme:--verder in te delen zoals 291.1/.8 --- Réincarnation --- Reincarnation --- Academic collection --- 294.3 --- Buddhism --- Reincarnation (Buddhism) --- Parapsychology --- Religion --- Doctrines --- Bouddhisme --- Origin

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The collective, inclusive, and intersectional framework used in this book speaks to the significance of understanding aging across diverse cultures from multiple perspectives, but still as a shared human experience.   The underlying message of the book is that although we are unique and different in our aging processes, we are ultimately connected through this physical, mental and spiritual experience of aging.  Thus, regardless of whether we are service providers, service recipients, educators or merely fellow human beings, it is important that we approach the aging experience through a collective lens for discovering and sharing resources as we age; honoring the past while simultaneously accepting that the future is here.  A few select examples of key findings from this collaborative work are as follows.  First, despite progress in the field, certain issues remain to be addressed including the challenges of racism and sexism, mistreatment, the digital divide, poverty, and other social and economic crises in urban and rural communities as they relate to our aging population.  Second, the need for sustaining a sense of independence among the aged and interdependence among supportive systems is warranted.  Third, our elders continue to benefit from culturally competent services community-based health interventions and social services that addresses normative and emerging challenges for them.  Fourth, spirituality in both indigenous and contemporary perspectives remains important for our elders’ development and quality of life. .

Culture. --- Future life -- Buddhism. --- Reincarnation -- Buddhism. --- Spirit. --- Aging --- Older people --- Culture --- Growth and Development --- Adult --- Sociology --- Socioeconomic Factors --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology, Cultural --- Population Characteristics --- Physiological Processes --- Age Groups --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Physiological Phenomena --- Health Care --- Persons --- Anthropology --- Named Groups --- Phenomena and Processes --- Aged --- Social Conditions --- Cultural Characteristics --- Social Welfare & Social Work --- Gerontology --- Social aspects --- Cross-cultural studies --- Social conditions --- Social aspects. --- Social conditions. --- Social sciences. --- Geriatrics. --- Aging. --- Cultural studies. --- Social Sciences. --- Geriatrics/Gerontology. --- Cultural Studies. --- Age --- Ageing --- Senescence --- Developmental biology --- Longevity --- Age factors in disease --- Medicine --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Physiological effect --- Diseases --- Health and hygiene --- Research. --- Ageing. --- Study and teaching. --- Cultural studies

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Simon fait chaque nuit le même rêve dont une femme énigmatique lui livre la clef : il est la réincarnation de l'oncle de Milarepa, le célèbre ermite tibétain du XIe siècle, qui vouait à son neveu une haine inexpiable. Pour sortir du cycle des renaissances, Simon doit raconter l'histoire des deux hommes, s'identifiant à eux au point de mêler leur identité à la sienne. Mais où commence le rêve, où finit le réel ? Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, dans cette pièce monologue qui est aussi un conte dans l'esprit du bouddhisme tibétain, poursuit son questionnement philosophique : la réalité existe-t-elle en dehors de la perception qu'on en a ?

French literature --- Franse literatuur --- Boeddhisme --- Reincarnation - Buddhism - Drama --- Mi-la-ras-pa, - 1040-1123 - Drama --- Reincarnation --- Past-lives regression --- Rebirth --- Regression, Past-lives --- Pre-existence --- Soul --- Theosophy --- Transmigration --- Buddhism --- Mi-la-ras-pa, --- Bźad-paʼi-rdo-rje, --- Jetsün Milarepa, --- Mi-la Bźad-paʼi-rdo-rje, --- Mi-la Rdo-rje-rgyal-mtshan, --- Mi-lê-jih-pa, --- Mila Grubum, --- Mila-gshad pa rdoje, --- Mila-rä-pa, --- Mila-Zhadpa-Dorge, --- Milaraspa, --- Milareba, --- Milarepa, --- Milariba, --- Milareypa, --- Pal-Zhadpa-Dorje, --- Mi︠a︡laraĭva, --- Мяларайва, --- Gėtėlgėgch Mi︠a︡laraĭva, --- Гэтэлгэгч Мяларайва, --- Mi-la-ras-pa, - 1040-1123