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Bibliography on Buddhist Ethics
http://jbe.gold.ac.uk/7/harvey001.html#suicide
Incoporate western philoosophy?
Western ethics?
First part-
Bacvkground on Buddhist doctrine concerning suicide
1. No Buddhist Should Commit Suicide
The Milindapanha 98. from the Vinaya Pitaka section on the Order.
Warren, Henry Clarke. Buddhism in Translations. Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Private Ltd. (1995).
King Nagasena explains why a buddhist (priest) may not kill himself. He claims that the world needs Buddhists to spread understanding and enlightenment (Boddhisatva way).
2. Breaking the third paaraajika (Moral Precept) on Taking Life especially in human form (manussaviggaha) is the most serious offense that a Buddhist monk may commit (although just as serious in the Pa~ncasiila or Five Precepts for laymen).
Results in expulsion from the monastic community.
In his Samantapaasaadikaa commentary, Buddhaghosa sets out to clarify the legal provisions of the......
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