Into the Jaws of Yama, Lord of Death: Buddhism, Bioethics, and Death – FULL INSTANT DOWNLOAD | PDF DOCX EPUB

Name: Into the Jaws of Yama, Lord of Death: Buddhism, Bioethics, and Death
ISBN-13: 9780791468319
ISBN-10: 0791468313
Addition ISBN: 9780791468326, 079148145X, 9780791481455
Author(s): Karma Lekshe Tsomo, Publisher: Suny Press
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.