Ecological Perspectives in Buddhism
Contents: Acknowledgements. Preface. Key to transliteration. Introduction. I. Internal ecology versus external ecology: 1. Buddhist ecology/S.P. Dubey. 2. Nature and Buddhism/Lhakdor. 3. Towards Buddhist ecology/Lata Chhatre. 4. Religious ecology in Buddhism/Mritunjay Kumar. 5. Buddhist message towards attitudinal crisis in ecology/Saroj Kanta Kar. 6. Ecology, Tripitaka and Buddhism/Geshe Pema Dorjee. 7. Buddhism and ecology/Sanjib Kumar Das. 8. Purification of inner self: Bulwark for ecology/B.V.S. Bhanusree. II. Pratityasamutpada and ecology: 9. Buddhism and ecology/S.R. Bhatt. 10. Buddhism and the human ecology/S.K. Pathak. 11. The dependent origination and ecology/Geshe Lobsang Khenrab. 12. Ecology and Nagarjuna\'s Sunyata/H.N. Mishra. 13. Buddhism and ecological crisis: a short note/Alok Tandon. III. Buddhism and social and legal ecology: 14. Buddhism, justice and ecological consideration/G.C. Nayak. 15. Toward Rights of Trees: A Buddhist perspective/Avinash Kumar Srivastava. IV. Buddhism and spiritual ecology: 16. The Buddhist moral view and its ecological implications/Bijayananda Kar. 17. Vipasyana and ecology/Madan Mohan Trivedi. 18. Buddhism as an ecological religion/M.R. Chinchore. 19. Buddhism as an environmental religion/Isha Gamlath. 20. Environmental concerns of contemporary Man/Rakesh Kumar Mishra. V. Buddhism and deep ecology: 21. Elements of deep ecology in Buddhism/D.N. Yadav. 22. Deep ecological consciousness and Pratityasamutpada/Dinesh Chandra Srivastava. VI. Buddhist ethics and ecology: 23. Paramita Sadhana--an ecological grandeur: environmental ethics in Buddhist perspective/K.J. George and Anil Kumar Tewari. 24. Buddhist ethical precepts and bio-ethics/Dipankar Lama. Select bibliography. Contributors. General index.
"Human existence--mental as well as physical--is a product of ecology. By way of showing that our ancient culture was concerned with reflections on the intimate relationship between life and ecology, this anthology presents an in-depth analysis of Buddhist response to ecological concerns.
It reflects upon the wider range of contemporary relevance and importance, such as the relationship between mental and physical aspects of human life, casual explanation of ecological issues in the light of pratityasamutpada and concept of sunyata, social and legal ecology, tantra and vipasyana aspects of Buddhist Yoga, and Buddhist approach to \'deep\' as well as \'shallow\' ecology. This book will be useful for the students and scholars of various disciplines who are interested in ecological issues and their possible solutions, development workers, ecologists, and the lay-men interested in the subject."
