Christopher Key Chapple 
Nonviolence to Animals, Earth, and Self in Asian Traditions [PDF ebook] 

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

Christopher Key Chapple is Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology, Loyola Marymount University. His previous books include Yoga and the Luminous: Patañjali’s Spiritual Path to Freedom and Living Landscapes: Meditations on the Five Elements in Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain Yogas, both published by SUNY Press.