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We are excited to announce that several papers presented at the Buddhist Beast: Reflections on Animals in Asian Religions and Culture conference has been published in recent issues of Religions. They will also be compiled in the forthcoming Special Issue titled “Buddhist Beasts: Reflections on Animals in Asian Religions and Cultures”. Please click on the links below to download the articles.
- Ann Heirman (Ghent University): “How to Deal with Dangerous and Annoying Animals: A Vinaya Perspective”
Religions 10 no. 2 (2019): 113, https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10020113 - Phyllis Granoff (Yale University): “For the Love of Dogs: Finding Compassion in a Time of Famine in Pali Buddhist Stories”
Religions 10 no. 3 (2019): 183, https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10030183 - Reiko Ohnuma (Dartmouth): “The Heretical, Heterodox Howl: Jackals in Pāli Buddhist Literature”
Religions 10 no. 3 (2019): 221, https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10030221 - Geoff Barstow (Oregon State University): “Monastic Meat: The Question of Meat Eating and Vegetarianism in Tibetan Buddhist Monastic Guidelines (bca’ yig)”
Religions 10 no. 4 (2019): 240, https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10040240 - Huaiyu Chen (Arizona State University): “The Road to Redemption: Killing Snakes in Medieval Chinese Buddhism”
Religions 10 no. 4 (2019): 247, https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10040247 - Barbara Ambros (UNC Chapel Hill): “Partaking of Life: Buddhism, Meat-Eating, and Sacrificial Discourses of Gratitude in Contemporary Japan”
Religions 10 no. 4 (2019): 279, https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10040279 - Naomi Appleton (University of Edinburgh): “What Does It Mean To Be a Badly Behaved Animal? An Answer from the Devadatta Stories of the Pāli Jātakas”
Religions 10 no. 4 (2019): 288, https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10040288 - Koichi Shinohara (Yale University): “Animals in Medieval Chinese Biographies of Buddhist Monks”
Religions 10 no. 6 (2019): 348, https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10060348 - Michael Nylan (University of California, Berkeley): “Humans as Animals and Things in Pre-Buddhist China”
Religions 10 no. 6 (2019): 360, https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10060360 - Daniel M. Stuart (University of South Carolina): “Becoming Animal: Karma and the Animal Realm Envisioned through an Early Yogācāra Lens”
Religions 10 no. 6 (2019): 363, https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10060363 - Lina Verchery (Harvard University): “Both Like and Unlike: Rebirth, Olfaction, and the Transspecies Imagination in Modern Chinese Buddhism”
Religions 10 no. 6 (2019): 364, https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10060364 - Petra Maurer (Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities): “Humanizing Horses: Transitions in Perception and Perspective”
Religions 10 no. 6 (2019): 375, https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10060375 - Gilles Tarabout (Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)): “Compassion for Living Creatures in Indian Law Courts”
Religions 10 no. 6 (2019): 383, https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10060383 - Richard John Lynn (University of Toronto): “Birds and Beasts in the Zhuangzi, Fables Interpreted by Guo Xiang and Cheng Xuanying”
Religions 10 no. 7 (2019): 445, https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10070445 - Daniela Berti (Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)): “Animals in the Public Debate: Welfare, Rights, and Conservationism in India”
Religions 10 no. 8 (2019): 475, https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10080475 (registering DOI)