The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1245 page)

 
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Karman
:

see
KARMA
.

 
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Karma-pa
.

Title of the highest spiritual authority in the Tibetan Buddhist school of
Karma
Kagyü who is an embodiment of compassion.

 
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Karma-yoga
.

One of the four main types of
yoga
in Hinduism, leading to union with God. It consists of detachment, not from action as such, but from the fruits of all action, offering them instead as a sacrifice to God.

 
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(Skt.,
karma
+
driya
, ‘organ’). The five organs or means of action, those of speech, hands, feet, excretion, and reproduction.

 
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Kar
a
.

In the
Mah
bh
rata
, the half-brother of the
P
avas
, who serves as the third general on the side of the
Kauravas
in the
Kuruk
etra
war.
More than any other
Mah
bh
rata
character, Kar
a brings out the ambiguities of
dharma
pivotal to the epic. On the one hand, a mean and dreadful enemy, who must be defeated by the righteous P
avas, Kar
a is, on the other hand, outstandingly loyal in his commitment to Duryodhana. Again and again, throughout the
Mah
bh
rata