NONVIOLENCE CONSUMPTION AND COMMUNITY AMONG ANCIENT INDIAN ASCETICS
Book Specification
| Item Code: | IDG090 |
| Author: | GAIL HINICH SUTHERLAND |
| Publisher: | Indian Institute Of Advanced Study, Shimla |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 1997 |
| ISBN: | 818595240X |
| Pages: | 78 |
| Cover: | Paperback |
| Other Details | 8.5" X 5.5" |
| Weight | 130 gm |
Book Description
About the Author: CONTENTS
GAIL HINICH SUTHERLAND is an American scholar who received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in the History of Religious, specializing in the Religions of India. Previous publications include Disguises of the Demon: The Development of the Yaksa in Hinduism and Buddhism and "Bija and Kshetra: Niyoga or Male Surrogacy in Ancient India." She is currently Associate Professor of Asian Religious and a member of the women's and Gender Studies faculty at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S.A.
| Renunciation and Food | 1 | |
| Mendicancy and Ahimsa | 6 | |
| Ahimsa and Ethical Materialism | 7 | |
| The Fasting of the Buddha | 10 | |
| Jain Mendicant Texts on Fasting and Asceticism | 13 | |
| Alms Gathering along the Middle Path | 16 | |
| From Paribbajaka to Bhikkhu | 20 | |
| The Buddha Transcends Asceticism and Shares Food | 22 | |
| Mendicants and Householders | 26 | |
| Introduction: Ahimsa as a Universal Moral Principle | 38 | |
| The Social, Religious, and Political Roots of Ahimsa | 41 | |
| The Counter-Sacrificial Significance of Ahimsa | 46 | |
| Warfare and Farming | 52 | |
| The Post-Mendicant Construction of 'Violence' | 57 | |
| NOTES | 62 | |
| Abbreviations | 69 | |
| Bibliography | 71 | |
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