Asian perspectives on animal ethics :  rethinking the nonhuman / 
spine title :  Asian perspectives on animal ethics. 
edited by Neil Dalal and Chlo襠Taylor. 
 - xiv, 208 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm. 
 - Routledge studies in Asian religion and philosophy ;  12. .
 - Routledge studies in Asian religion and philosophy ;  12. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Compassion and nnonviolence. Being sentiently with others: the shared existential trajectory among humans and nonhumans in Jainism / Anne Vallely -- Animal compassion: what the Jatakas teach Levinas about giving'the bread from one's own mouth' / Katharine Loevy -- Humanism and posthumanism. China's Confucian horses: the place of nonhuman animals in a Confucian world order / Bao-Er -- Heidegger and Zhuangzi on the nonhuman: towards a transcultural critique of (post)humanism / Mario Wenning -- Moral rights and status of nonhuman animals -- The argument for Ahisa in the Anusasanaparvan of the Mahabharata / Christopher Framarin -- Cutting the cat in one: zen master Dogen on the moral status of non-human animals / James McRae -- Non-human animals and the question of rights from Asian perspectives / Christopher Key Chapple -- Special relations, bovine Dharma and snake worship -- Bovine Dharma: non-human animals in the Swadhyaya / Parivar Pankaj Jain -- Snakes in the Dark Age: human action, Karmic retribution, and the possibilities for Hindu animal ethics / Amy Allocco. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780415729864  RM578.00 0415729866 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Human-animal relationships--Asia.<br/>Animals--Symbolic aspects--Asia.<br/>Animal welfare--Moral and ethical aspects--Cross-cultural studies.<br/>Human-animal relationships--Cross-cultural studies.<br/>Animals--Religious aspects.<br/>Nonviolence--Religious aspects.