For the Love of Dogs: Finding Compassion in a Time of Famine in Pali Buddhist Stories
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- Bud...
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Year: 2019, Volume: 10, Issue: 3, Pages: 1-21 |
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