This book explores how multi-life stories served to construct, communicate, and challenge ideas about karma and rebirth within early South Asia.

Karma, the law of cause and effect, of nature's retribution for lost harmony, and Rebirth, from which it is inseperable, have been described as the oldest doctr

This volume challenges the concept of Buddhism as an apolitical religion without implications for law.

Taking a comparative approach which considers characters that are shared across the narrative traditions of early Indian religions (Brahmanical Hinduism, Jainis

"Many Buddhas, One Buddha introduces a significant section of the important early Indian Buddhist text known as the Avadåanaâsataka, or "One Hundred Stories",