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

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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, including its impact on East Asian Cultures. It then turns to a variety of contemporary issues relating to this topic such as: vegetarianism, animal and environmental protection, and the cultivation of religious tolerance.

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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

Circa l’autore

Christopher Key Chapple is Associate Professor of Theology at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He is the author of
Karma and Creativity, co-translator of the
Yoga Sutras of Patañjali, and editor of Winthrop Sargeant’s translation of the
Bhagavad Gita.

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Lingua Inglese ● Formato PDF ● Pagine 160 ● ISBN 9780791498774 ● Dimensione 3.2 MB ● Casa editrice State University of New York Press ● Pubblicato 1993 ● Scaricabile 24 mesi ● Moneta EUR ● ID 7665571 ● Protezione dalla copia Adobe DRM
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