商品簡介
The treatments of violence in the history of the Indian subcontinent (India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh) range from Jain ascetics wearing face masks and sweeping the ground in front of them to avoid killing any manner of life to Krishna's advice (while revealing himself as Vishnu in the Bhagavad Gita ) to his cousin Arjuna that the killing of his other cousins in war was a just part of his karma. Yet the Jain tradition has resulted in conqueror kings and Mohandas K. (Mahatma) Gandhi has argued that the Bhagavad is the strongest statement for nonviolence that exists. Twelve essays explore these and other tensions about the use of violence in the Buddhist, Jain, and Hindu traditions on the Indian subcontinent. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Jan E.M. Houben, at present working at the Kern Institute, Leiden University, obtained his Ph.D. in 1992 for a thesis on Bhartrhari's philosophy of language, and published on South Asia's philosophical and linguistic tradition as well as on Vedic ritual.Karel R. van Kooij, Professor of South Asian Art and Material Culture, Kern Institute, Leiden University, obtained his Ph.D. in 1972 for a thesis on the Kalikapuran?a, and published on Buddhist and Hindu Iconography with regard to Nepal, India and Sri Lanka.
