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

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Author / Creator:Chapple, Christopher Key. 1954-
Imprint:Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, c1993.
Description:xiv, 146 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:SUNY series in religious studies.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2475292
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ISBN:0791414973
0791414981 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [121]-139) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 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