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ISBN: | 0511077416 9780511077418 9780511800801 0511800800 0511075847 9780511075841 1283331446 9781283331449 9780511202049 0511202040 0521553946 9780521553940 0521556406 9780521556408
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Digital file characteristics: | text file PDF
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Print version record.
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Summary: | "This systemic introduction to Buddhist ethics is aimed at anyone interested in Buddhism, including students, scholars and general readers. At the same time it develops a careful, probing analysis of the nature and practical dynamics of Buddhist ethnics both in its unifying themes and in the particularities of different Buddhist traditions. The book applies Buddhist ethics to a range of issues of contemporary concern: humanity's relationship with the rest of nature; economics; war and peace; euthanasia; abortion; sexual equality; and homosexuality. Professor Harvey draws on texts of the main Buddhist traditions, and on historical and contemporary accounts of the behaviour of Buddhists, to describe existing Buddhist ethics, to assess different views within it, and to extend its application into new areas."--Jacket.
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Other form: | Print version: Harvey, Peter (Brian Peter). Introduction to Buddhist ethics. Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2000 0521553946 0521556406
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