Becoming Animal: Karma and the Animal Realm Envisioned through an Early Yogācāra Lens
Religions June 1, 2019 D. M. Stuart 5 citations
In an early discourse from the Saṃyuttanikāya, the Buddha states: “I do not see any other order of living beings so diversified as those in the animal realm. Even those beings in the animal realm have been diversified by the mind, yet the mind is even more diverse than those beings in the animal realm.” This paper explores how this key early Buddhist idea gets elaborated in various layers of...