Nonviolence to Animals, Earth, and Self in Asian TraditionsState 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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Página vii
... Asian Responses to the Environmental Crisis : Select Contemporary Examples 49 Part II . The Nonviolent Self 4. Otherness and Nonviolence in the Mahābhārata 5. Nonviolent Approaches to Multiplicity 6. The Jaina Path of Nonresistant Death ...
... Asian Responses to the Environmental Crisis : Select Contemporary Examples 49 Part II . The Nonviolent Self 4. Otherness and Nonviolence in the Mahābhārata 5. Nonviolent Approaches to Multiplicity 6. The Jaina Path of Nonresistant Death ...
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... fast unto death . The 1989 Margaret Demorest Lectureship and Humanities Festi- val at Casper College in Wyoming gave me the opportunity to reflect on the issue of Asian nonviolence as a global concept , and Acknowledgments.
... fast unto death . The 1989 Margaret Demorest Lectureship and Humanities Festi- val at Casper College in Wyoming gave me the opportunity to reflect on the issue of Asian nonviolence as a global concept , and Acknowledgments.
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... began as far less than perfect . Christopher Key Chapple Loyola Marymount University Los Angeles , California A Note on Diacritical Marks For the Sanskrit materials , X Nonviolence to Animals , Earth , and Self in Asian Traditions.
... began as far less than perfect . Christopher Key Chapple Loyola Marymount University Los Angeles , California A Note on Diacritical Marks For the Sanskrit materials , X Nonviolence to Animals , Earth , and Self in Asian Traditions.
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... Asian context . In Western cultures , nonviolence usually denotes passive , non- resistant civil disobedience , pacifism , and conscientious objection to war . It is associated particularly with the Christian teachings of the Religious ...
... Asian context . In Western cultures , nonviolence usually denotes passive , non- resistant civil disobedience , pacifism , and conscientious objection to war . It is associated particularly with the Christian teachings of the Religious ...
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... Asian approaches to nonviolence might help inform the newly emerging field of environmental ethics . It includes references to Hindu feminist environ- mentalism , and to the possible interface between Gaia theory and Jaina cos- mology ...
... Asian approaches to nonviolence might help inform the newly emerging field of environmental ethics . It includes references to Hindu feminist environ- mentalism , and to the possible interface between Gaia theory and Jaina cos- mology ...
Conteúdo
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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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