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Roaming Free like a Deer: Buddhism and the Natural World
- Author(s):
- Daniel Capper (see profile)
- Date:
- 2021
- Subject(s):
- Ethics, Buddhism--Study and teaching
- Item Type:
- Book
- Tag(s):
- Environmental humanities, Buddhist studies
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/mr9s-0n39
- Abstract:
- Today more than ever we need a robust set of environmental ethics that can steer us in positive directions, and Buddhism, with its practices like animal release rituals, can provide us with at least some of the moral ecological guidance that we require. Yet, like with all systems of ethics, Buddhist environmental ethics sometimes do not lead to the most satisfying results. Hence, a synthetic analysis of how Buddhism may help us to move forward appropriately in the climate change age as well as a clear-sighted understanding of the limits of Buddhist environmental ethics may provide great ecological value. Throughout this book I pursue precisely such value while I explore a comprehensive, critical, and analytical investigation of the theory, practice, and real-world ecological performance of Buddhist environmental ethics. Utilizing the groundbreaking method of personhood-based relational animism while engaging in this critique, I illuminate our comprehension of the ecological meanings of lived examples from India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, China, Japan, Tibet, and the modern West. In the end I help us better to understand the reasons for and distributions of Buddhist (non)vegetarianism, Buddhist respect for the skills of animals, as well as nature mystical elements, among other dimensions of human interactions with the nonhuman world.
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- Published as:
- Book
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 3 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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