Dialogues with Death: Māra, Yama, and Coming to Terms with Mortality in Classical Hindu and Indian Buddhist Traditions
This article compares Hindu and Buddhist narratives involving debate or contest with the gods representing death in each respective tradition. In Hinduism, this is Yama, judge and god of the underworld, while in Buddhism, death, as well as the concept of rebirth and, more broadly, saṃsāra itself, is...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Equinox
2012
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Religions of South Asia
Year: 2012, Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Pages: 13-32 |
| Further subjects: | B
Rebirth
B Māra B Yama B Kaṭha Upaniṣad B Death B Sāvitrī |
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