Buddhism Volume

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Religions of the World and Ecology Series

Buddhism and Ecology Volume

Duncan Ryuken Williams and Mary Evelyn Tucker, eds.

Table of Contents

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” Lewis Lancaster

Chapter 1	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

Chapter 2	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

Chapter 3	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

Chapter 4	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

Chapter 5	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

Chapter 6	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

Chapter 7	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 Notes on Contributors Index	Duncan Ryuken Williams