Viveka
July 1, 2018, 12:09am
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Here are a couple of links where aspects of this has been discussed. Also there is an Ajahn Brahm teaching where the buddhist attitude to abortion is discussed.
As I want to write an article about this theme, I already looked around a little in internet and saw several opinions, and of course I have my own opinion, too, but what I want to describe is - of course- the Buddha’s stance on this - or, what probably would have been his stance - if such a stance could be distilated from the scriptures at all.
So, if you want, please, your thoughts, comments, sutta passages regarding this subject etc.
I want to state clearly: I don’t want this to be a discuss…
In a number of EBT passages we find the term bhunaha. The suffix is -han, to kill. The first element of the compound has sometimes been taken as bhū “being” (eg. Nyanamoli “wrecker of being”). It is glossed in the Pali commentaries as “growth”, a term whose sense overlaps with that of bhū, and rendered by Ven Bodhi as “destroying growth”, a rendering he has maintained from the Middle Length Discourses to the Numerical Discourses.
However, the relevant Sanskrit term is bhrūṇa , from the root bhṛ ,…
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