Nonviolence to animals, earth, and self in Asian traditions /

Nonviolence to animals, earth, and self in Asian traditions /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Chapple, Christopher Key, 1954-
Imprint:	Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, ©1993.
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 146 pages).
Language:	English
Series:	SUNY series in religious studies SUNY series in religious studies.
Subject:	Nonviolence. Ahiṃsā. Nonviolence -- Religious aspects. Passive resistance -- Asia. Philosophy -- history. Ahiṃsā. Nonviolence. Nonviolence -- Religious aspects. Passive resistance. Asia. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11105392

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ISBN:	0585087512 9780585087511 0791414973 0791414981
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-139) and index. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Chapple, Christopher. Nonviolence to animals, earth, and self in Asian traditions. Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, ©1993 0791414973

Table of 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.