附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-139) and index.
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.
摘要: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.