Nonviolence in the Mahabharata - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nonviolence in the Mahabharata write by Alf Hiltebeitel. This book was released on 2016-03-22. Nonviolence in the Mahabharata available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Indian mythological texts like the Mahābhārata and Rāmāyaṇa, there are recurrent tales about gleaners. The practice of "gleaning" in India had more to do with the house-less forest life than with residential village or urban life or with gathering residual post-harvest grains from cultivated fields. Gleaning can be seen a metaphor for the Mahābhārata poets’ art: an art that could have included their manner of gleaning what they made the leftovers (what they found useful) from many preexistent texts into Vyāsa’s “entire thought”—including oral texts and possibly written ones, such as philosophical debates and stories. This book explores the notion of non-violence in the epic Mahābhārata. In examining gleaning as an ecological and spiritual philosophy nurtured as much by hospitality codes as by eating practices, the author analyses the merits and limitations of the 9th century Kashmiri aesthetician Anandavardhana that the dominant aesthetic sentiment or rasa of the Mahābhārata is shanta (peace). Mahatma Gandhi's non-violent reading of the Mahabharata via the Bhagavad Gita are also studied. This book by one of the leaders in Mahābhārata studies is of interest to scholars of South Asian Literary Studies, Religious Studies as well as Peace Studies, South Asian Anthropology and History.
Nonviolence in the Mahābhārata
Nonviolence in the Mahābhārata - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nonviolence in the Mahābhārata write by Alf Hiltebeitel. This book was released on 2016. Nonviolence in the Mahābhārata available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Ahimsa in the Indic Traditions
Ahimsa in the Indic Traditions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ahimsa in the Indic Traditions write by Jeffery D. Long. This book was released on 2024-09-10. Ahimsa in the Indic Traditions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ahiṃsā in the Indic Traditions: Explorations and Reflections, edited by Jeffery D. Long and Steven J. Rosen, examines the diversity of nonviolent (ahimsa-oriented) doctrines originating in the Indic world, both in terms of interpersonal relationships and how they apply to the rest of creation, including animals. This volume engages the voices of scholars from various disciplines and addresses numerous religious doctrines, including those of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and their related sacred texts. The book focuses not only on past scholarship and intellectual modes of understanding nonviolence, but also on living traditions and the practice of modern and post-modern individuals, from Vivekananda to Gandhi to Prabhupada, and their millions of supporters and followers. The volume shows that the implications of ahimsa are staggering, with reference to interpersonal exchange, vegetarianism, animal rights, climate change, and so on.
Nonviolence to Animals, Earth, and Self in Asian Traditions
Nonviolence to Animals, Earth, and Self in Asian Traditions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nonviolence to Animals, Earth, and Self in Asian Traditions write by Christopher Key Chapple. This book was released on 1993-08-24. Nonviolence to Animals, Earth, and Self in Asian Traditions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Political Violence in Ancient India
Political Violence in Ancient India - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Political Violence in Ancient India write by Upinder Singh. This book was released on 2017-09-25. Political Violence in Ancient India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru helped create the myth of a nonviolent ancient India while building a modern independence movement on the principle of nonviolence (ahimsa). But this myth obscures a troubled and complex heritage: a long struggle to reconcile the ethics of nonviolence with the need to use violence to rule. Upinder Singh documents the dynamic tension between violence and nonviolence in ancient Indian political thought and practice over twelve hundred years. Political Violence in Ancient India looks at representations of kingship and political violence in epics, religious texts, political treatises, plays, poems, inscriptions, and art from 600 BCE to 600 CE. As kings controlled their realms, fought battles, and meted out justice, intellectuals debated the boundary between the force required to sustain power and the excess that led to tyranny and oppression. Duty (dharma) and renunciation were important in this discussion, as were punishment, war, forest tribes, and the royal hunt. Singh reveals a range of perspectives that defy rigid religious categorization. Buddhists, Jainas, and even the pacifist Maurya emperor Ashoka recognized that absolute nonviolence was impossible for kings. By 600 CE religious thinkers, political theorists, and poets had justified and aestheticized political violence to a great extent. Nevertheless, questions, doubt, and dissent remained. These debates are as important for understanding political ideas in the ancient world as for thinking about the problem of political violence in our own time.
