Nonviolence to Animals, Earth, and Self in Asian Traditions

Christopher Key Chapple

Description

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.
Acknowledgments

A Note on Diacritical Marks

Introduction

Part I. Nonviolence, Animals, and Earth

1. Origins and Traditional Articulations of Ahimsa

2. Nonviolence, Buddhism, and Animal Protection

3. Nonviolent Asian Responses to the Environmental Crisis: Select Contemporary Examples

Part II. The Nonviolent Self

4. Otherness and Nonviolence in the Mahabharata

5. Nonviolent Approaches to Multiplicity

6. The Jaina Path of Nonresistant Death

7. Living Nonviolence

Notes

Index

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 24 août 1993
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780791498774
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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