Chapple, Published Assessment of "Ahimsa: Non-Violence" (1987)

Christopher Key Chapple, a specialist scholar of Jainism, nonviolence and Asian religious traditions and author of Nonviolence to Animals, Earth, and Self in Asian Traditions, is reported in secondary academic discussion as characterizing this film as elegantly portraying several Jain leaders and extolling the religion as a champion of animal rights and nonviolent living, alongside a criticism that the film omits critical inquiry into historical nuance and the contemporary position of Jain women. Its strength is assessment by a recognized specialist in the exact subject matter. Its limit is that this atlas located Chapple's assessment through a secondary academic discussion of the film rather than a located primary publication with its own page citation, so it is cited for the substance of a specialist's recorded judgment rather than for an exact quotation with a page number.