University of South Carolina Scholar Commons Faculty Publications Religious Studies, Department of 6-1-2019 Becoming Animal: Karma and the Animal Realm Envisioned through an Early Yogacara Lens Daniel Malinowski Stuart
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[email protected]. religions Article Becoming Animal: Karma and the Animal Realm Envisioned through an Early Yogac¯ ara¯ Lens Daniel M. Stuart Department of Religious Studies, University of South Carolina, Rutledge College, Columbia, SC 29208, USA;
[email protected] Received: 24 April 2019; Accepted: 28 May 2019; Published: 1 June 2019 Abstract: In an early discourse from the Sam. yuttanikaya¯ , 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 Buddhist discourse during a millennium of historical development.