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]

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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.

Play or download (41MB MP3) (via iTunes) or read transcript.

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Ten Days to Launch!

“Vegetarianism: The Story So Far” Update #17 on Kickstarter.com
(Updates #15 and #16 were only visible to backers on Kickstarter.)