Cremation and Cosmogony – Karma and Soteriology
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Cremation
can and do appreciate the many and ever-active sources of suffering and disease among our kind, does it not follow that we are under a deep obligation to teach the public (as best we can) the many means whereby the laws alluded to above may be duly obeyed, and the health preserved; or, what is the same thing, much suffering and disease averted, or, to say the least of it, very materially lessen...
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عنوان ژورنال: Dhaulagiri Journal of Sociology and Anthropology
سال: 1970
ISSN: 1994-2672,1994-2664
DOI: 10.3126/dsaj.v1i0.287