Word: karma
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...many examples of Sanskrit poetical literature, Professor Lanman described how the life of a Brahman is divided into four phases: first, the "Walk with God" or life as a student; second, the support of a family; third, the life of a forest hermit; fourth, the renunciation of the World. Karma (meaning "deed") was defined as inherited tendency, derived from some former existence, and Transmigration, as viewed by Brahman philosophy, was described as birth after birth until the Karma becomes sterile and unable to reproduce. In each successive existence, the bodily form has a relation to the previous existence; for instance...
...lecture will be given at 4 o'clock tomorrow in the Peabody Hall of Phillips Brooks House by Professor C. R. Lanman, Wales Professor of Sanskrit and Editor of the Harvard Oriental Series. His subject will be Brahmanism, and he will also take up Transmigration, Caste and Karma...
...Lauman, Wales Professor of Sanskrit and Editor of the Harvard Oriental Series, will speak on Brahminism next Sunday at 4.30 o'clock in the Phillips Brooks House. He will take up Theosophy, Transmigration, Karma, and Caste...
...only the later Hindoos who believed life not worth having. Transitoriness, misery, and lack of reality, are the three characteristics of the Buddhist belief. Buddhism then, is a psychology without a soul, combined with a belief in transmigration. This apparent inconsistency is explained by calling that which migrates or Karma, a balance in the debit and credit account with futurity...
...Doctrine or Dhamma.- Popular pessimism and belief in transmigration.- The "Three Characteristics": transitoriness, misery, lack of substantive reality (anniccam, dukkham, anattam).- Karma and rebirth.- Meditation and Nirvana...