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[Thrasher, Allen]

Schmithausen's books recommended by Ashok, are:

LC control no.: 	2005353063
LCCN permalink: 	http://lccn.loc.gov/2005353063
Type of material: 	Book (Print, Microform, Electronic, etc.)
Personal name: 	Schmithausen, Lambert.
Main title: 	The problem of the sentience of plants in earliest Buddhism / Lambert Schmithausen.
Published/Created: 	Tokyo : International Institute for Buddhist Studies, 1991.
Description: 	121 p. ; 26 cm.
ISBN: 	4906267246
Notes: 	Includes bibliographical references (p. 107-115) and index.
Subjects: 	Plants in the Tripiṭaka.
	Plants --Religious aspects --Buddhism.
	Buddhism --Doctrines.
Series: 	Studia philologica Buddhica. Monograph series ; 6

LC control no.: 	2010327203
LCCN permalink: 	http://lccn.loc.gov/2010327203
Type of material: 	Book (Print, Microform, Electronic, etc.)
Personal name: 	Schmithausen, Lambert.
Main title: 	Plants in early Buddhism and the far eastern idea of the Buddha-nature of grasses and trees / Lambert Schmithausen.
Spine title: 	Plants in early Buddhism
Published/Created: 	Lumbini : Lumbini International Research Institute, 2009.
Related names: 	Lumbini International Research Institute.
Description: 	390 p. ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 	9789937217163
Notes: 	Includes bibliographical references ([341]-365) and index.
	Includes words in Chinese and Japanese.
Subjects: 	Nature --Religious aspects --Buddhism.
	Plants --Religious aspects --Buddhism.
	Buddhism --Doctrines.

Also, these that came up on a computer search might be useful:

LC control no.: 	93906672
LCCN permalink: 	http://lccn.loc.gov/93906672
Type of material: 	Book (Print, Microform, Electronic, etc.)
Personal name: 	Malika, Harakiśana.
Main title: 	Vr̥kshoṃ meṃ jīvātmā / Harakiśana Malika.
Edition: 	Saṃskaraṇa 1.
Published/Created: 	Ajamera : Śrīmatī Paropakāriṇī Sabhā, 1993.
Description: 	102 p. ; 19 cm.
ISBN: 	Rs10.00
Summary: 	Author’s argument that plants have souls.
Notes: 	In Hindi.
Subjects: 	Jiva.
	Plants --Psychic aspects.
	Future life --Jainism.
	Immortality.
	Evolution --Religious aspects.

LC control no.: 	79912637
LCCN permalink: 	http://lccn.loc.gov/79912637
Type of material: 	Book (Print, Microform, Electronic, etc.)
Personal name: 	Vidyāprabhākara, Muni.
Main title: 	Sthāvara-jīva-mīmāṃsā : arthāt, ʻVr̥ksha jar̥a haiṃʾ nāmaka pustaka kī samīkshā / Muni Vidyāprabhākara.
Edition: 	1. saṃskaraṇa.
Published/Created: 	Gurukula Jhajjhara : Harayāṇā Sāhitya Saṃsthāna, 1970.
Description: 	150 p. ; 23 cm.
Summary: 	An inquiry into the souls of plants.
Notes: 	Cover title.
	In Hindi.
	Imprint corrected by label on cover: Gurukula Vidyāpīṭha, Rohataka.
	Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: 	Śāstrī, Omprakāśa. Vr̥ksha jaṛa haiṃ.
	Arya-samaj --Doctrines.
	Plants --Psychic aspects.
	Evolution --Religious aspects.
	Future life --Jainism.
	Immortality.

The last appears to be a response to a book by Omprakasa Sastri, "Vrksha jara haim," [Plants are without consciousness], which I can find in no library.

There is a chapter "Dealing with sentience and violence in Hindu, Jain and Buddhist texts" in:

LCCN permalink: 	http://lccn.loc.gov/2010018516
Type of material: 	Book (Print, Microform, Electronic, etc.)
Personal name: 	Hall, Matthew, 1980-
Main title: 	Plants as persons : a philosophical botany / Matthew Hall.
Published/Created: 	Albany : State University of New York Press, c2011.


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