A volume of this kind is an important step in engaging scholarship to address critical issues of our time. The potential of religious traditions offering resources for rethinking our relation to the earth is one of the most exciting themes to emerge from scholarship in many years. This volume will be a first important step to the full understanding of the contribution humankind's perceptions of the sacred can make to the way we care for our earth.
   --Rodney L. Taylor Professor of Religious Studies and Associate Dean of the Graduate School

What a significant advance these articles represent for the study of religion and ecology. The potential contribution to the new field of J religious ecology is immense. These papers will help to create a coherent field for the study of Buddhism and ecology. What is even more important, though this is not the precise task of scholarship, these papers will help define the modern Buddhist response to ecological ethics.
   --John Berthrong, Associate Dean for Academic and Administrative Affairs

Mary Evelyn Tucker is Senior Lecturer, Yale Divinity School.

Duncan Ryuken Williams is Associate Professor of Japanese Buddhism, University of California, Berkeley.

Read More by Mary Evelyn Tucker:

• Confucianism and Ecology: The Interrelation of Heaven, Earth, and Humans
• Hinduism and Ecology: The Intersection of Earth, Sky, and Water
• Ecology and the Environment: Perspectives from the Humanities