Buddhism is a tradition which has cultivated a profound sense of the interconnection of all life-forms in its doctrine of dependent origination. The teaching of interrelatedness may be a critical basis for the recovery of human reciprocity with nature and with all life-forms. The 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 U.S. 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.
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Preface Lawrence E. Sullivan Series Foreword Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim Introduction Duncan Ryuken Williams
Overview：Framing the Issues Buddhism and Ecology：Collective Cultural Perceptions by Lewis Lancaster
Theravada Buddhism and Ecology：The Case of Thailand The Hermeneutics of Buddhist Ecology in Contemporary Thailand：Buddhadasa and Dhammapitaka by Donald K. Swearer
A Theoretical Analysis of the Potential Contribution of the Monastic Community in Promoting a Green Society in Thailand by Leslie E. Sponsel and Poranee Natadecha-Sponsel
Mahayana Buddhism and Ecology：The Case of Japan The Jeweled Net of Nature by Paul 0. Ingram
The Japanese Concept of Nature in Relation to the Environmental Ethics and Conservation Aesthetics of Aldo Leopold by Steve Odin
Voices of Mountains，Trees，and Rivers: Kukai Dogen，and a Deeper Ecology by Graham Parkes
Buddhism and Animals：India and Japan Animals and Environment in the Buddhist Birth Stories by Christopher Key Chapple
Animal Liberation，Death，and the State: Rites to Release Animals in Medieval Japan by Duncan Ryuken Williams
Zen Buddhism：Problems and Prospects Mountains and Rivers and the Great Earth: Zen and Ecology by Ruben L.F. Habito
The Precepts and the Environment by John Daido Loori
American Buddhism：Creating Ecological Communities Great Earth Sangha：Gary Snyder's View of Nature as Community by David Landis Barnhill
American Buddhist Response to the Land：Ecological Practice at Two West Coast Retreat Centers by Stephanie Kaza
The Greening of Zen Mountain Center：A Case Study by Jeff Yamauchi
Applications of Buddhist Ecological Worldviews Nuclear Ecology and Engaged Buddhism by Kenneth Kraft
Buddhist Resources for Issues of Population, Consumption，and the Environment by Rita M. Gross
Buddhism，Global Ethics，and the Earth Charter by Steven C. Rockefeller
Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Buddhism and Ecology Is There a Buddhist Philosophy of Nature? By Malcolm David Eckel
Green Buddhism and the Hierarchy of Compassion by Alan Sponberg
Buddhism and the Discourse of Environmental Concern: Some Methodological Problems Considered by Ian Harris
Bibliography on Buddhism and Ecology by Duncan Ryuken Williams
