Asian perspectives on animal ethics : rethinking the nonhuman

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Being sentiently with others: the shared existential trajectory among humans and nonhumans in Jainism
2 Animal compassion: what the Jātakas teach Levinas about giving “the bread from one’s own mouth”
3 China’s Confucian horses: the place of nonhuman animals in a Confucian world order
4 Heidegger and Zhuangzi on the nonhuman: towards a transcultural critique of (post)humanism
5 The argument for Ahiṃsā in the Anuśāsanaparvan of the Mahābhārata
6 Cutting the cat in one: Zen Master Dōgen on the moral status of nonhuman animals
7 Nonhuman animals and the question of rights from an Asian perspective
8 Bovine dharma: nonhuman animals and the Swadhyaya Parivar
9 Snakes in the dark age: human action, karmic retribution, and the possibilities for Hindu animal ethics
Index