- Preface [Lawrence E. Sullivan]
- Series Foreword [Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim]
- Introduction [Duncan Ryuken Williams]
- 1. Overview: Framing the Issues
- Buddhism and Ecology: Collective Cultural Perceptions [Lewis Lancaster]
- 2. Theravada Buddhism and Ecology: The Case of Thailand
- The Hermeneutics of Buddhist Ecology in Contemporary Thailand: Buddhadasa and Dhammapitaka [Donald K. Swearer]
- A Theoretical Analysis of the Potential Contribution of the Monastic Community in Promoting a Green Society in Thailand [Leslie E. Sponsel and Poranee Natadecha-Sponsel]
- 3. Mahayana Buddhism and Ecology: The Case of Japan
- The Jeweled Net of Nature [Paul O. Ingram]
- The 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]
- 4. Buddhism and Animals: India and Japan
- 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 Ryuken Williams]
- 5. Zen Buddhism: Problems and Prospects
- Mountains and Rivers and the Great Earth: Zen and Ecology [Ruben L. F. Habito]
- The Precepts and the Environment [John Daido Loori]
- 6. American Buddhism: Creating Ecological Communities
- Great Earth Sangha: Gary Snyder’s View of Nature as Community [David Landis Barnhill]
- American Buddhist Response to the Land: Ecological Practice at Two West Coast Retreat Centers [Stephanie Kaza]
- The Greening of Zen Mountain Center: A Case Study [Jeff Yamauchi]
- 7. Applications of Buddhist Ecological Worldviews
- 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]
- 8. Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Buddhism and Ecology
- 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: Some Methodological Problems Considered [Ian Harris]
- Bibliography on Buddhism and Ecology [Duncan Ryuken Williams]
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD AND ECOLOGY
Buddhism and Ecology
The Interconnection of Dharma and Deeds
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PAPERBACK
$27.50 • £23.95 • €25.95
ISBN 9780945454144
Publication Date: 01/15/1998
518 pages
6 x 9 inches
1 halftone, 4 line drawings
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