Buddhism And Suicide
Thesis:
Bibliography on Buddhist Ethics
http://jbe.gold.ac.uk/7/harvey001.html#suicide
Incoporate western philoosophy?
Western ethics?
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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 precept. He discusses a variety of cases, real and hypothetical, where death ensues, and endeavors to clarify the legal requirements for a breach of the precept to have taken place.
The central legal concepts involved in Buddhaghosa's discussion are those of method, intention, and agency.
The sources themselves make a distinction between pa.n.natti-vajja -- or what is prohibited by the Vinaya (for example, eating after midday) -- and what is lokavajja, or regarded as immoral by the world at large outside the cloister (for example, killing, stealing, and lying).
Keown, Damien. "Attitudes to Euthanasia in the Vinaya and Commentary." Journal of Buddhist Ethics.
http://jbe.gold.ac.uk/6/keown993.htm
Suicide and Assisted Suicide, incitement of suicide are all condememned by Buddha in the Vinaya.
Apart from respect for...
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