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Preface | |
Series Foreword | |
Introduction | |
Overview: Framing the Issues | |
Buddhism and Ecology: Collective Cultural Perceptions | p. 3 |
Theravada Buddhism and Ecology: The Case of Thailand | |
The Hermeneutics of Buddhist Ecology in Contemporary Thailand: Buddhadasa and Dhammapitaka | p. 21 |
A Theoretical Analysis of the Potential Contribution of the Monastic Community in Promoting a Green Society in Thailand | p. 45 |
Mahayana Buddhism and Ecology: The Case of Japan | |
The Jeweled Net of Nature | p. 71 |
The Japanese Concept of Nature in Relation to the Environmental Ethics and Conservation Aesthetics of Aldo Leopold | p. 89 |
Voices of Mountains, Trees, and Rivers: Kukai, Dogen, and a Deeper Ecology | p. 111 |
Buddhism and Animals: Indian and Japan | |
Animals and Environment in the Buddhist Birth Stories | p. 131 |
Animal Liberation, Death, and the State: Rites to Release Animals in Medieval Japan | p. 149 |
Zen Buddhism: Problems and Prospects | |
Mountains and Rivers and the Great Earth: Zen and Ecology | p. 165 |
The Precepts and the Environment | p. 177 |
American Buddhism: Creating Ecological Communities | |
Great Earth Sangha: Gary Snyder's View of Nature as Community | p. 187 |
American Buddhist Response to the Land: Ecological Practice at Two West Coast Retreat Centers | p. 219 |
The Greening of Zen Mountain Center: A Case Study | p. 249 |
Applications of Buddhist Ecological Worldviews | |
Nuclear Ecology and Engaged Buddhism | p. 269 |
Buddhist Resources for Issues of Population, Consumption, and the Environment | p. 291 |
Buddhism, Global Ethics, and the Earth Charter | p. 313 |
Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Buddhism and Ecology | |
Is There a Buddhist Philosophy of Nature? | p. 327 |
Green Buddhism and the Hierarchy of Compassion | p. 351 |
Buddhism and the Discourse of Environmental Concern: Some Methodological Problems Considered | p. 377 |
Bibliography on Buddhism and Ecology | p. 403 |
Notes on Contributors | p. 427 |
Index | p. 433 |
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