01678nam a22003015i 4500999001300000001000900013003000400022005001700026008004100043010001700084020002800101020001800129040002300147082002000170100002800190245003700218250001700255260006000272300002100332336002600353337002800379338002700407490001000434520075900444906004501203942001601248952011201264  c230d23021344002OSt20211221063251.0191223s2020    nyu           000 0 eng    a  2019957616  a0195687272q(paperback)  z9780195687279  aDLCbengerdacDLC  223a294.35bKEO1 aKeown, Damien,eauthor.10aBuddhist ethics /cDamien Keown.  a1st edition.  aNew York ;aNew Delhi :bOxford University Press,c2005  a147 p.;b18 cm.,  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier0 aVsi:p  a"Buddhist Ethics: A Very Short Introduction brings together two largely independent fields of knowledge: Buddhism and ethics. Historically, ethics has not received as much attention in traditional Buddhist thought as it has in the West. This VSI looks at why, covering Buddhist attitudes to animals and the environment, sexuality and gender, war, terrorism, abortion, suicide, euthanasia and science, and biomedical technologies such as cloning and gene editing. While some aspects of the Buddhist moral code are familiar and have themes in common with Christianity, others - like karma and rebirth - are less common in the West. Buddhist positions on moral issues are complex and often more conservative than they first appear"--cProvided by publisher.  a0bibccorignewd2eepcnf20gy-gencatlg  2ddcc01e23  00102ddc4070a01b01d2020-08-25l0o294.35 KEOpIDS242r2020-08-25v165.00w2020-08-25y01zAcc.No. 493