Asian perspectives on animal ethics : rethinking the nonhuman / edited by Neil Dalal and Chlo襠Taylor.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.