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Buddha Nature and Animality is about peaceful living. In discussions about the relation between humans and their animal relatives, a central theme is that Buddhism represents the most viable philosophical/religious alternative to the malaise surrounding us when we confront ecological problems. This recognition points to the notion of compassion. Karuna is given expression as an alternative to stewardship since stewardship too falls into the dualistic trap of privileging the human. Authors seek beyond the limits imposed by discourses of ethics and assume a more radical approach to seek the roots of the perspectives that allow the conceptual space for the problematic dialogues in the first place. Rather than viewing animals as distinct beings sharing our environs, authors attempt to give the animal soul back to spirituality. They argue for the naturally enlightened spontaneity arising in animal nature and that animal nature is Buddha-nature. This "animal-buddha" nature is fundamental to understanding Buddhism as a 21st century philosophy for living and dying.
Buddha Nature and Animality, David Jones (editor), Jain Publishing, Paperback, 223 Pages, $30.00
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Contents: Buddha Nature and Animality |
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Acknowledgments |
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Contributors |
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Introduction: Toward an Ecology of Compassin-
Homo Sapiens, Animality,
and Buddha Nature, by David Jones |
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Buddha Animals, by Jason W. Wirth |
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Jataka, Pancatantra, and the Rhetoric of Animalia in South
Asia, by Thomas A. Forsthoefel |
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Buddha-nature and Bodhicitta: Animals and Humans in Dramatic
Ensembles Intent uopn Enlightenment, by Peter D. Hershock |
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Animal Forms and Formlessness: The Protean
Quality of Buddha Nature in Chinese Martial Arts, by Harriette Grissom |
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Does a Dog See Into its Buddha-Nature? Re-posing
the Question of Animality/Humanity in Zen Buddhism, by Bret W. Davis |
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Asking the Question: Do Animals Have Buddha-Nature,
by Thomas Pynn |
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Zen Eye Hunter, Zen Eye Hunted: Revealing the
Animal Face of Buddha-Nature, by Brian Schroeder |
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One Cell, Symbiosis, and the Buddha's Broken
Karmic Wheel: A Legacy of an Ancient Bacterium, by Keiko Takioro
Miller |
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Animality and Desire in the Buddhist Monastic
Code, by Jennifer L. Manlowe |
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Animal Buddhas, by David Jones
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Index |
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