Archive | January 2016
Read transcript of Ep 1: Ahimsa
Alternatively, follow this link to hear the episode & read the show notes. Transcription by Amy Carpenter.
[Indian music, broadcast over small tinny speakers]
VegHist Episode 1: Ahimsa
In the Ganges plain in Northen India in the middle of the first millennium BCE, the idea of “ahimsa” – non violence – emerges.
Episode 1: Ahimsa
Ian visits the intellectual hub of iron age India – the Kingdom of Magadha. He discovers a subculture of vagabond philosophers that developed two world religions; and the vegetarian order of monks and nuns who became the torchbearers of ahimsa.
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