Nonviolence to animals, earth, and self in Asian traditions / Christopher Key Chapple.

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Chapple, Christopher Key, 1954-

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0585087512
9780585087511

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Nonviolence to animals, earth, and self in Asian traditions.DDC classification:

303.6/1 20

LOC classification:

HM278 .C465 1993eb

Other classification:

73.53
11.92
11.93
CC 7200
RR 10962

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Contents:

Pt. 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 -- Pt. 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.

Summary: This book probes the origins of the practice of nonviolence in early India and traces its path within the Jaina, Hindu, and Buddhist traditions. It speaks to a variety of contemporary issues, such as vegetarianism, animal and environmental protection, and the cultivation of religious tolerance.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-139) and index.

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This book probes the origins of the practice of nonviolence in early India and traces its path within the Jaina, Hindu, and Buddhist traditions. It speaks to a variety of contemporary issues, such as vegetarianism, animal and environmental protection, and the cultivation of religious tolerance.

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