Nonviolence to Animals, Earth, and Self in Asian Traditions

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State University of New York Press, 24 de ago. de 1993 - 160 páginas
This book probes the origins of the practice of nonviolence in early India and traces its path within the Jaina, Hindu, and Buddhist traditions, including its impact on East Asian Cultures. It then turns to a variety of contemporary issues relating to this topic such as: vegetarianism, animal and environmental protection, and the cultivation of religious tolerance.

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Origins and Traditional Articulations of Ahimsa
3
Nonviolence Buddhism and Animal Protection
21
Otherness and Nonviolence in the Mahābhārata
75
Nonviolent Approaches to Multiplicity
85
The Jaina Path of Nonresistant Death
99
Living Nonviolence
111
Notes
121
Index
141
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Christopher Key Chapple is Associate Professor of Theology at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He is the author of Karma and Creativity, co-translator of the Yoga Sutras of Patañjali, and editor of Winthrop Sargeant's translation of the Bhagavad Gita.

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