A harvest of essays in buddhism and ecology berkeley, calif parallax. Put into the broader context of a growing number of monks engaged in environmental activism, the strength of the thai environmental movement, and the numerous problems the case has encountered, however, phra supojs assassination can be seen as evidence of complex tensions between buddhist monks engaged in environmentalism and the secular state. Phillip is a coguiding teacher at spirit rock meditation center and the author of emotional chaos. Today, it is considered one of the worlds major religions with more than 470 million followers. Buddhist views of nature and the environment springerlink. Dharma rain zen center is a soto zen buddhist community dedicated to supporting each other in the practice of meditation and the study of buddhist teachings. Another benefit of buddhist practice to the environment is the compassion that drives all thinking.
The focus of this paper will be your choice of a single buddhist text, chosen from dharma rain or an alternate source if desired. This file contains an updated list of all the ebooks with an expanded description of each one. Buddhism is a religion founded by siddhartha gautama approximately 2,500 years ago in india. Responsible living buddhist text translation society. Though some are still only available in tibetan, others have been translated into many different languages. In dharma rain, stephanie kaza and kenneth kraft offer a resource for buddhist environmentalists. Our shared intention is to cultivate compassion, love, and wisdom in our own lives and in the larger community in which we live.
The basic teachings of buddhism dharma center of oklahoma. Jon albuquerque, new mexico the author has read through and cites numerous buddhist books, including the scriptures of buddhism. The result is that modern buddhists are moving into social activism, specifically environmentalism, and protecting the worlds ecology from the devastation of unchecked consumerism. Sources and contributors include basho, the dalai lama, thich nhat hanh, gary snyder, chogyam trungpa, gretel ehrlich, peter mathiessen, helen tworkov editor of tricycle, and philip glass. Just as a rain cloud would settle the dust thats been raised by the wind, so all conceptions come to rest when one sees clearly with wisdom. Instead of translating buddhist moral thinking into western categories, scholars will understand buddhist ethics better if approached, in the end, on its own terms, an approach that leads to a. Sources of buddhist environmentalism, stephanie kaza and kenneth. He is a founding member of the buddhist text translation society and currently is the assistant.
Dharma rain explicates the buddhist notion that at root, everything is one. Download thewheelofengaged buddhism ebook pdf or read online books in pdf, epub. In part two, note thich nhat hanhs powerful argument for engaged buddhism. Trees, animals, rocks, air, and water are all, simply, us.
Buddhist ebooks in pdf file description urban dharma. To close, here is a video of chogyam trungpa rinpoche talking about milarepa. As a collection of texts by writers of disparate cultures, professions, and purposes, this book is necessarily uneven in tone and approach. Dharma rain sources of buddhist environmentalism epub. Calibre is a free and open source ebook library management application developed by users of ebooks for users of ebooks. Philosophy, theology, ethics, and culture is to employ theoretical and empirical methodologies for the intersubjective understanding of, and realworld applications of the conceptual resources, textual sources, and experiential practicesincluding ritual, social, ethical, liturgical, contemplative, or communitarianto foster critical. Linebarger has a ba and ma in chinese language and literature from san francisco state university, a ma in translation from the university of birmingham, uk, and a phd in buddhist studies and practices from dharma realm buddhist university. A comprehensive collection of classic texts, contemporary interpretations, guidelines for activists, issuespecific information, and materials for environmentallyoriented religious practice. Dependent origination is more of an adverb, describing the process of events cooccurring in time, than it is a description of things or their properties. Emptiness, identity and interpenetration in huayen buddhism.
Please send down a rain of vast and profound dharma appropriate to the disciples of this world. Sacred protests and buddhist environmental knowledge. Gain an appreciation of the roles played by buddhism in the local religious environment, and the dynamic. Dharma rain zen center portland or a soto zen temple. The eco dharma centre is situated in a beautiful and wild part of the catalan pyrenees. The work is n i cluded in the khuddaka nikaya minor collection of the sutta pitaka, but its popularity has raised it far above the single niche it occupies in the scriptures to. Environmental ethics from the perspective of early buddhism. Explore in depth the ongoing spread of buddhism in america. At the peak of his career, former ceo and editorinchief of esquire magazine, phillip moffitt, traded in his worldly aspirations to explore the inner life. A study in buddhist environmentalism karida budddhist sangha learning and sharing ideas with joe swaffar, steward of the hall of flowers, karida sangha. Contemporary buddhist insights on environmentalism are assembled here, with contributions from basho, the dalai lama, thich nhat hanh, gary snyder. Common tibetan buddhist prayers, mantras and texts gaden for the west.
In part one, pay particular attention to the readings entitled reverence for life and the nature of nature. He commenced his lifelong study and practice of buddhism at the age of 24 under the guidance of the tripitaka master hsuan hua. Parts one and two of the dharma rain text present how buddhism addresses the environment. Buddhist thought is deeply rooted in process thinking, in which becoming is too relentlessly changing to ever coalesce into being. Toward a buddhist environmentalism semantic scholar.
He subsequently founded the life balance institute and now teaches vipassana meditation with an emphasis on living the dharma in daily life. Ron epstein, retired lecturer in the philosophy department at san francisco state university and founding member of dharma realm buddhist university, holds a b. I have this authors other dharma book, right understanding in plain english and this buddhas lists book is even better. Emptiness, identity and interpenetration in huayen buddhism by atif khalil huayen represents one of the most sophisticated attempts in buddhist intellectual history to explain the nature of reality. Its vision of existence, in contrast to the mainstream western intellectual tradition, sees. Buddhism and environmental ethics university of hawaii.
Sources of buddhist environmentalism find, read and cite all the research you. He has taught at dharma realm buddhist university, university of california at davis, and san francisco state university, and has written extensively on both buddhism and environmental ethics. Sources of buddhist environmentalism, stephanie kaza and kenneth kraft, eds. Click to see the fact file for more interesting facts or alternatively, you can download our comprehensive worksheet pack.
The eighth of twelve or thirteen ascetic practices recommended by the buddha is dwelling in the forest. The story of milarepa pacifying a hunter and his ferocious dog, demonstrating a reverence for life, is included in dharma rain. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. It has a cornucopia of features divided into the following main categories. Buddhist books and dharma talks in pdf plus audio and video downloads. An overview of buddhist environmental history and initiatives in the united states with a summary of key philosophical principles used by people in the field. Buddhist period was known as the vedic age, this gave way to the development of the tantric age followed by the upanishadic age which corresponds with the few centuries before and after the buddha. Buddhist perspectives on our global ecological wellbeing. The text should be long enough to contain several ideas which you can develop in depth. Here is what sone traditional buddhist sources tell us about the benefits of the natural environment as a place for buddhist practice. Sources of buddhist environmentalism stephanie kaza and kenneth kraft editors download bok. Publishers of the respected bdk english tripitaka series, much of which is available for free download in pdf format here. Another good source is lotsawa houses section on works related to milarepa. Download a printable pdf of the recommended reading list.
Stephanie kaza is professor of environmental studies at the university of. We offer courses, events and retreats which support the realisation of our human potential and the development of an ecological consciousness honouring our mutual belonging within the web of life drawing on the buddhist dharma and the emerging ecological paradigms of our time. The dhammapada is the best known and most widely esteemed text in the pali tipitaka, the sacred scriptures of theravada buddhism. The liberalism, universalism and rationalism of buddhism in middle ages stimulated. Whereas adarsha focuses only on the kangyur, tengyur and other buddhist scriptures in tibetan, dharma ebooks will contain a greater range of buddhist ebooks, including important texts from the buddhist canon, commentaries and practice texts. Download pdf thewheelofengagedbuddhism free online. They begin with sources in buddhist scriptures and writings of.