{"id":617,"date":"2010-04-07T20:57:18","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T00:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/?p=617"},"modified":"2010-05-23T19:02:52","modified_gmt":"2010-05-23T23:02:52","slug":"attitudes-to-euthanasia-in-the-vinaya-and-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2010\/04\/07\/attitudes-to-euthanasia-in-the-vinaya-and-commentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Euthanasia in the Vinaya and Commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"
ISSN:1076\u20139005
\nVolume 6, 1999<\/h6>\n

Attitudes to Euthanasia in the Vinaya and Commentary<\/h3>\n

Damien Keown
\nGoldsmiths College, University of London<\/p>\n

The prohibition on taking human life is one of the cornerstones of Buddhist ethics, but there is often confusion about the interpretation of this prohibition in different contexts. In his commentary on the third p\u0101r\u0101jika<\/em> in the Samantap\u0101s\u0101dik\u0101<\/em>, Buddhaghosa sets out to clarify the legal provisions of the monastic precept against taking life. The root text and his comments on it are relevant to the contemporary debate on euthanasia, and this paper considers what light Buddhist jurisprudence can shed on this moral dilemma.<\/p>\n

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ISSN:1076\u20139005 Volume 6, 1999 Attitudes to Euthanasia in the Vinaya and Commentary Damien Keown Goldsmiths College, University of London The prohibition on taking human life is one of the cornerstones of Buddhist ethics, but there is often confusion about the interpretation of this prohibition in different contexts. In his commentary on the third p\u0101r\u0101jika in … Continue reading Euthanasia in the Vinaya and Commentary<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2406],"tags":[2605],"class_list":["post-617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volume-06-1999","tag-euthanasia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5X8HA-9X","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}