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  Approaches to Buddhism
.... This difference affects how each approach views karma, nirvana, bodhisattva, anatman/sunyata, duhkha, Arhats, and pretas (hungry ghosts). ....
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Analysis of Thai Buddhism
.... the very popular cosmology of the Three Worlds," which held that there were different dimensions peopled by a variety of beings--"hungry ghosts, demons, animals ....
(2536 10 )

Analysis: Chang and Halliday on Mao and the Great Leap Forward
.... In Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine, Jasper Becker (255) asserts that it was Mao's failure that was responsible for the disaster created by the Great Leap ....
(5120 20 )

Society and Religion in Non-Western Societies
.... Properly tended ancestors remain with their ancestors, while the unattended wander the world as "hungry ghosts." However, after four generations, the ....
(6222 25 )

Native Son
.... This category of ghosts would include both Mrs. Thomas's stoic and accommodationist .... buildings of the ghetto produce an endless stream of hungry and fearful rats ....
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