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Throughout history and in every culture and country, animals and humans have formed special bonds often as pets. Well trained pets have often been used in Animal Assisted Therapy (AAT) programs in hospitals and nursing homes to help patients cope with illnesses and recovery whil…

This dissertation explores the meaning of the Sanskrit term kṣānti in the Mahābhārata and the Pali term khanti in the Pali Canon. There is considerable debate and confusion within the scholarly community as to what these terms mean, and scholars have chosen to translate the verb…

In the West, the oldest form of anger management is revenge. In other words, the discourse of revenge is a means to control or guide the expression of anger and determine when anger has reached its proper end. However, revenge has frequently been mistaken as the natural expressi…

The virtue of patience is generally considered a passive virtue. But, like all classical ideas of virtue, patience manifests itself in two characteristics: active and passive. Through an inquiry into the notions of patience in philosophical tradition, biblical tradition, and pat…