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The exploratory volume in the new field of comparative ethics serves thediverse goals of groups variously interested in International law andmorality, in comparative religious ethical ideals, or simply incross-cultural literature and drama. The author draws moral ideals fromprimary Hindu sources--popular and formal, literary and spiritual. Thesame method is applied for Buddhist moral texts. Introducing method incomparative ethics with a synopsis of Hindu mystical tradition, the authordiiscusses in detail ethics in the Rgveda, Upaniisads, Laws of Manu,Ramayana, Gita, other popular classics, poetry, drama, philosophers, andreformers. After summarizing pluralism in Hindu ethiics, the authorsketches ethical thought in Mahayana Buddhiist texts. The book containselaborate notes, two appendices, critical textual matter, a diagram oftopical parallels, a bibliography, and an index.