How a Growing Buddhist Movement Is Responding to the Ecological Crisis
“Ecodharma” sees the defense of the earth as an essential part of the spiritual path.
David Loy
David Loy was the Besl Professor of Ethics/Religion and Society at Cincinnati’s Xavier University and is qualified as a teacher in the Sanbo Kyodan tradition of Japanese Buddhism.
In Search of the Sacred
Buddhist reflections on the secular
Ken Jones, Welsh Author and Activist, Dies at 85
Ken Jones, a dharma teacher with the UK-based Western Chan Fellowship and an important voice in socially engaged Buddhism, left this dew-drop world Sunday, August 2, after a long illness, at the age of 85. His…
The World Is Made of Stories
Believing we've moved beyond religious myth, we mistake our culture's newest story for the world itself.
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
Awakening in the Age of Climate Change
If Buddhism is to address the ecological crisis, it must clarify its essential message.
TeachingsMagazine | Online Retreats
Healing Ecology
What can Buddhism contribute to our understanding of the ecological crisis?
How Buddhist Is Modern Buddhism?
The Making of Buddhist Modernism David L. McMahan New York: Oxford University Press 2008, 320 pp., $29.95 paper Buddhism was the first major missionary religion, and by all accounts it seems to have spread peacefully. The…
Secular Buddhism?
Confession of a Buddhist AtheistStephen BatchelorNew York: Spiegel & Grau2010, 320 pp., $26.00, cloth What do Buddhist teachings about impermanence and conditionality imply for Buddhism itself? As Buddhism spread throughout Asia, its encounters with different cultures…
Why Buddhism Needs the West
Buddhism has been a boon to the West. Can the West return the favor?
Dharma Talks
Transforming Self, Transforming Earth: A Buddhist Ecology
In this retreat, David Loy guides us through the basic Buddhist teachings of personal and collective dukkha, connecting them to new scientific knowledge about the biosphere. He paints a fresh portrait of understanding the eco-crisis as…
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