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Everyone loves a ghost story. It’s a genre that exists across history and in nearly every society. In certain forms of Buddhism, accruing bad karma puts you at risk of coming back as a horrifying and pitiable hungry ghost — figures quite different to the spectres found in Western folklore.
Shehan Karunatilaka is the author of The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, winner of the 2022 Booker Prize. He is appearing at the Melbourne Writers Festival on 5 May, the Brisbane Writers Festival on 10 and 11 May, and Sydney Writers Festival on 24, 25 and 26 May.
Andy Rotman is Professor of Religion, Buddhist Studies, and South Asian Studies at Smith College, Massachusetts, and the author of Hungry Ghosts.
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Everyone loves a ghost story. It’s a genre that exists across history and in nearly every society. In certain forms of Buddhism, accruing bad karma puts you at risk of coming back as a horrifying and pitiable hungry ghost — figures quite different to the spectres found in Western folklore.
Shehan Karunatilaka is the author of The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, winner of the 2022 Booker Prize. He is appearing at the Melbourne Writers Festival on 5 May, the Brisbane Writers Festival on 10 and 11 May, and Sydney Writers Festival on 24, 25 and 26 May.
Andy Rotman is Professor of Religion, Buddhist Studies, and South Asian Studies at Smith College, Massachusetts, and the author of Hungry Ghosts.

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