Karma

Buddhist traditions

• Karma appears in Buddhist traditions.

  Watson’s Lotus Sūtra attests karma as action and its consequence in Buddhist teaching, including expedient explanation. Mahāyāna speech, not a casual synonym for luck, fate, or moral scorekeeping in every culture.

  from Burton Watson (translation) · The Lotus Sutra, 1993 (this translation); Sanskrit/Chinese recensions much older

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Vedic tradition

• Karma yoga is historically related to Karma.

  The Gita’s karma-yoga is the path of selfless action that works on karma without treating karma as the path-name itself. A named karma-yoga historically related to karma as deed-fruit, not dharma as cosmic duty alone and not niṣkāma-karma as the desireless rule alone.

  from Anonymous (Mahābhārata); English public-domain translations · Bhagavad Gita, classical Sanskrit; English PD translations 19th–early 20th c.

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• Niṣkāma karma is historically related to Karma.

  The Gita teaches action without attachment to fruits (niṣkāma karma) as the rule that purifies karma-yoga. A named niṣkāma-karma historically tied to karma as fruit-bearing deed, not cold indifference and not karma-yoga as the wider path label alone.

  from Anonymous (Mahābhārata); English public-domain translations · Bhagavad Gita, classical Sanskrit; English PD translations 19th–early 20th c.

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