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For the Love of Dogs: Finding Compassion in a Time of Famine in Pali Buddhist Stories |
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| Author |
Granoff, Phyllis (著)
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| Source |
Religions
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| Volume | v.10 n.3 |
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| Date | 2019.03 |
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| Publisher | MDIP |
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https://www.mdpi.com/
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| Location | Basel, Switzerland [巴塞爾, 瑞士] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Keyword | dogs; Buddhism; famine; merit |
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| Abstract | This paper focuses on stories from the 13th century Rasavāhinī in which feeding a starving dog is described as an act of great merit, equal even to the care of a monk or the Buddha. It begins with a reevaluation of passages from Buddhist texts that have been taken by scholars as evidence of pan- Buddhist concern for taking care of animals. It argues that they have been over-read and that the Rasavāhinī stories are distinctive. The setting in which these acts occur, a catastrophic famine, helps us to understand the transformation of the despised dog into an object of compassion. In such dire circumstances, when humans themselves behave like animals, compassion for a starving dog is both a new recognition of a fundamental shared kinship between human and animal and a gesture of recovering lost humanity. |
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| Table of contents | 1. Introduction
2. The Merits of Feeding Animals: Reexamining the Evidence
3. Dogs as a Field of Merit
4. Charity in a Time of Famine
5. Conclusions
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| ISSN | 20771444 (E) |
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| DOI | 10.3390/rel10030183 |
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| Hits | 62 |
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| Created date | 2021.11.12 |
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| Modified date | 2023.06.19 |
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