20.500.12556/RUL-146350 Presentation of “living being” in early Indian Buddhism and its ethical implications Pojmovanje “živega bitja” v zgodnjem budizmu in etične implikacije This article focuses on the presentation of the notion of “living being” and its link to ethics in the Pāli Buddhist canon and its commentaries. This objective is achieved by examining the key Pāli terms that refer to “living being” (i.e., satta, pāṇa, and bhūta) in different contexts with the aim of identifying their sematic ranges. The article then discusses how the notion of “living being” in the Pāli sources can be situated within the main doctrinal models developed in early Buddhism such as the six sense bases (āyatana), dependent origination (paticcasamuppada), and the Abhidhammic presentation of cognition, which are linked to a larger ethical framework that axiomatically repudiates the existence of a human “self” as the centre of all analysis. Instead, complex systems that link all living beings serve as the foundation for Buddhist praxis, and lead to a new understanding of the lived experience, which is founded on an ethics of behaviour, centred around non-vi-olence or the non-harming of all beings. The article concludes by exploring the important contribution of Buddhist ethics to the current environmental challenges by underscoring the essential role played by the doctrine of non-self (anattā) as the very source and foun-dation of an ethical stance from which ethical actions can proceed. “living being” in ancient India Theravāda Buddhism Pāli terms satta pāṇa and bhūta plants in Theravāda Buddhism early Buddhist ethics pojem “živega bitja” v stari Indiji theravādski budizem pālijski termini satta pāṇa in bhūta rastline v theravādskem budizmu zgodnja budistična etika true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2023-05-24 12:41:32 2023-05-24 12:41:37 2025-08-08 13:22:23 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2023 0 0 Str. 201-230 iss. 2 Vol. 11 (27) 2023 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova NiDoloceno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2023-01-01 17:24 2232-5131 153288195 Ditrich.pdf Ditrich.pdf 1 3D39F851621EF9A9DDD9EFB588AC3AF7 5b5e75a1d9a09b159907e4c59e4fcb5c485190e45b743decb3bbde5c1e277bf4 6f0c2187-fa1f-11ed-a314-00155dcfd717 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=169516 https://journals.uni-lj.si/as/article/view/11834/11988 1 4781e204-fa1f-11ed-a314-00155dcfd717 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=169515 Filozofska fakulteta Asian studies 0 0 0