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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Main Author: Granoff, Phyllis Emily 1947- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: MDPI [2019]
In: Religions
Year: 2019, Volume: 10, Issue: 3, Pages: 1-21
Further subjects:B Buddhism
B Famine
B Dogs
B Merit
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