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Buddha Nature and Animality
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Edited by David Jones

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Buddha Nature and Animality is about peaceful living.  In discussions about the relation between humans and their animal relatives, a central theme is that Buddhism represents the most viable philosophical/religious alternative to the malaise surrounding us when we confront ecological problems.  This recognition points to the notion of compassion. Karuna is given expression as an alternative to stewardship since stewardship too falls into the dualistic trap of privileging the human.  Authors seek beyond the limits imposed by discourses of ethics and assume a more radical approach to seek the roots of the perspectives that allow the conceptual space for the problematic dialogues in the first place.  Rather than viewing animals as distinct beings sharing our environs, authors attempt to give the animal soul back to spirituality.  They argue for the naturally enlightened spontaneity arising in animal nature and that animal nature is Buddha-nature. This "animal-buddha" nature is fundamental to understanding Buddhism as a 21st century philosophy for living and dying. 

2007

236 pp., bibliography, notes, and Index 
ISBN: 978-0-89581-860-7

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