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Into the jaws of Yama, lord of death : Buddhism, bioethics, and death /
"This book explores the Buddhist view of death and its implications for contemporary bioethics. Writing primarily from within the Tibetan tradition, author Karma Lekshe Tsomo discusses Buddhist notions of human consciousness and personal identity and how these figure in the Buddhist view of dea...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "This book explores the Buddhist view of death and its implications for contemporary bioethics. Writing primarily from within the Tibetan tradition, author Karma Lekshe Tsomo discusses Buddhist notions of human consciousness and personal identity and how these figure in the Buddhist view of death. Beliefs about death and enlightenment and states between life and death are also discussed. Tsomo goes on to examine such hot-button topics as cloning, abortion, assisted suicide, euthanasia, organ donation, genetic engineering, and stem-cell research within a Buddhist context, introducing new ways of thinking about these highly controversial issues."--Jacket. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 270 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-254) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1429411902 9781429411905 0791468313 0791468321 9780791468319 9780791468326 9780791481455 079148145X |