Title Buddhism and ecology : the interconnection of dharma and deeds / edited by Mary Evelyn Tucker and Duncan Ryūken Williams

Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions : Distributed by Harvard University Press, [1997] ©1997

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Description xlii, 467 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm regular print Series Religions of the world and ecology Religions of the world and ecology. Contents Buddhism and ecology / Lewis Lancaster -- Hermeneutics of Buddhist ecology in contemporary Thailand : Buddhadasa and Dhammapitaka / Donald K. Swearer -- Theoretical analysis of the potential contribution of the monastic community in promoting a green society in Thailand / Leslie E. Sponsel / Poranee Natadecha-Sponsel -- Jeweled net of nature / Paul O. Ingram -- Japanese concept of nature in relation to the environmental ethics and conservation aesthetics of Aldo Leopold / Steve Odin -- Voices of mountains, trees, and rivers : Kukai, Dogen, and a deeper ecology / Graham Parkes -- Animals and environment in the Buddhist birth stories / Christopher Key Chapple -- Animal liberation, death, and the state : rites to release animals in medieval Japan / Duncan Ryūken Williams -- Mountains and rivers and the great earth / Ruben L.F. Habito -- Precepts and the environment / John Daido Loori -- Great earth saṅgha : Gary Snyder's view of nature as community / David Landis Barnhill -- American Buddhist response to the land / Stephanie Kaza -- Greening of Zen Mountain Center / Jeff Yamauchi -- Nuclear ecology and engaged Buddhism / Kenneth Kraft -- Buddhist resources for issues of population, consumption, and the environment / Rita M. Gross -- Buddhism, global ethics, and the earth charter / Steven C. Rockefeller -- Is there a Buddhist philosophy of nature? / Malcolm David Eckel -- Green Buddhism and the hierarchy of compassion / Alan Sponberg -- Buddhism and the discourse of environmental concern / Ian Harris Summary "Buddhism is a tradition which has cultivated a profound sense of the interconnection of all life-forms in its doctrine of dependent origination. This teaching of interrelatedness may be a critical basis for the recovery of human reciprocity with nature and with all life-forms. This volume examines Buddhism's understanding of the intricate web of life. In noting the cultural diversity of Buddhism, it highlights aspects of the tradition which may be helpful in formulating an effective environmental ethics. It cites examples from both Asia and the United States of socially engaged Buddhist projects to protect the environment. Finally, the volume explores some of the theoretical and methodological issues involved in such a project. Elaborating upon topics introduced at a conference at the Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions, the authors analyze the prospects and the problems of using Buddhism as an environmental resource in both theory and practice."--Jacket Analysis Ecology Religious aspects Buddhism Human ecology Religious aspects Buddhism Ecology - Religious aspects - Buddhism Human ecology - Religious aspects - Buddhism Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. [403]-425) and index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [403]-425) and index Subject Ecology -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism Human ecology -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism. Ecology -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism Author Tucker, Mary Evelyn. Williams, Duncan Ryūken, 1969- LC no. 97037528 ISBN 0945454139 (hard cover : alk. paper) 0945454147 (paperback: alk. paper)

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