Seeing the Terrain We Walk: Features of the Contemporary Landscape of “Religion and Animals”
This is a portion (pages 41-48) of the first article by Paul Waldau in A Communion of Subjects: Animals in Religion, Science and Ethics.
The evolution of morality
Complex animal societies are most successful if members minimise harms caused to one another and if collaboration occurs. In order to promote this, a moral structure inevitably develops. Hence, morality has evolved in humans and in many other species. The attitudes which people have towards other humans and individuals of other species are greatly affected […]
THE COMPASSIONATE TREATMENT OF ANIMALS A Contemporary Buddhist Approach in Eastern Tibet
The compassionate treatment of animals has been the focal point of speeches and writings by one of the most influential Buddhist cleric-scholars on the Tibetan plateau today, Khenpo Tsultrim Lodro of Larung Buddhist Academy. This essay surveys the Khenpo’s broad-based advocacy for animal welfare and details his discrete appeals to nomads in eastern Tibet to […]