Martin Kovan

Writer and Ethicist, Australia

Martin Kovan is a writer and ethicist with a PhD in philosophy from the University of Melbourne in Australia. His monograph A Buddhist Theory of Killing: A Philosophical Exposition (2022) is available from Springer.

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Written by Martin Kovan

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Ethics

The lethal act

The Buddha taught not to kill, yet his followers have at times disobeyed him. Can murderers still be Buddhists?

Martin Kovan