Colin H. Simonds is an Assistant Lecturer at the University of Alberta and a Teaching Fellow at the Tergar Institute, Kathmandu, Nepal.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: How to Argue with an Enlightened Being.- Part I Theoretical Foundations of a Buddhist Animal Ethic.- Chapter 2 Buddhist Principles for an Animal Ethic.- Chapter 3 Compassion and Human Exceptionalism.- Chapter 4 Karmic Interspecies Empathy, or All Sentient Beings Have Been Your Mother.- Part II Applied Buddhist Animal Ethics.- Chapter 5 Duḥkha’s Interspecies Dependent Arising, or Buddhist Total Liberation.- Chapter 6 Particularism and Practical Animal Ethics in Buddhism.- Chapter 7 Against Eating Animals, or The Imperative of Ethical Veganism in Buddhism.- Chapter 8 Eating Plants, and Other Challenges to a Buddhist Ethical Veganism.- Chapter 9 Vivisection, Animal Sacrifice, and Buddhist Ethics.- Chapter 10 The Ethics of Buddhist Animal Release.- Chapter 11 Care and Compromise at a Buddhist Animal Sanctury, or an Example of Applied Buddhist Animal Ethics.

Colin H. Simonds is an Assistant Lecturer at the University of Alberta and a Teaching Fellow at the Tergar Institute, Kathmandu, Nepal.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: How to Argue with an Enlightened Being.- Part I Theoretical Foundations of a Buddhist Animal Ethic.- Chapter 2 Buddhist Principles for an Animal Ethic.- Chapter 3 Compassion and Human Exceptionalism.- Chapter 4 Karmic Interspecies Empathy, or All Sentient Beings Have Been Your Mother.- Part II Applied Buddhist Animal Ethics.- Chapter 5 Duḥkha’s Interspecies Dependent Arising, or Buddhist Total Liberation.- Chapter 6 Particularism and Practical Animal Ethics in Buddhism.- Chapter 7 Against Eating Animals, or The Imperative of Ethical Veganism in Buddhism.- Chapter 8 Eating Plants, and Other Challenges to a Buddhist Ethical Veganism.- Chapter 9 Vivisection, Animal Sacrifice, and Buddhist Ethics.- Chapter 10 The Ethics of Buddhist Animal Release.- Chapter 11 Care and Compromise at a Buddhist Animal Sanctury, or an Example of Applied Buddhist Animal Ethics.

Colin H. Simonds is an Assistant Lecturer at the University of Alberta and a Teaching Fellow at the Tergar Institute, Kathmandu, Nepal.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: How to Argue with an Enlightened Being.- Part I Theoretical Foundations of a Buddhist Animal Ethic.- Chapter 2 Buddhist Principles for an Animal Ethic.- Chapter 3 Compassion and Human Exceptionalism.- Chapter 4 Karmic Interspecies Empathy, or All Sentient Beings Have Been Your Mother.- Part II Applied Buddhist Animal Ethics.- Chapter 5 Duḥkha’s Interspecies Dependent Arising, or Buddhist Total Liberation.- Chapter 6 Particularism and Practical Animal Ethics in Buddhism.- Chapter 7 Against Eating Animals, or The Imperative of Ethical Veganism in Buddhism.- Chapter 8 Eating Plants, and Other Challenges to a Buddhist Ethical Veganism.- Chapter 9 Vivisection, Animal Sacrifice, and Buddhist Ethics.- Chapter 10 The Ethics of Buddhist Animal Release.- Chapter 11 Care and Compromise at a Buddhist Animal Sanctury, or an Example of Applied Buddhist Animal Ethics.