 | How much is enough?: Buddhism, consumerism, and the human environment / ed. by R.K.Payne. - Somerville: Wisdom Publications, 2010. - xii, 232 p.: ill. - ISBN 978-0-86171-685-2
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Editor's Preface
"How Much Is Enough?": Buddhism and the Human Environment
by Richard K. Payne ............................................ xi
Acknowledgements ........................................... xii
Introduction
Just How Much Is Enough?
by Richard K. Payne ............................................. 1
Global Perspectives on the Environment ....................... 3
Contents of the Collection ................................... 4
Final Thoughts .............................................. 14
Buddhist Environmentalism in Contemporary Japan by Duncan
Ryūken Williams ................................................ 17
"To the Honorable Mitsui Real Estate Company: Plants and
Trees Have Buddha Nature" ................................... 17
Establishment Buddhism and Sect-Wide Environmentalism:
The Case of the Sōtō Zen "Green Plan" ....................... 20
Japanese Engaged Buddhism and the Search for an
Alternative Paradigm: The Case of Jukōin Temple ............. 23
Conservative Japanese Buddhist Environmentalism in Local
and Global Contexts ......................................... 28
Conclusion .................................................. 33
HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH? How Much Is Enough?: Buddhist
Perspectives on Consumerism
by Stephanie Kaza .............................................. 39
Introduction ................................................ 39
The Scope and Impact of Consumption ......................... 40
Traditional Critiques of Consumerism ........................ 45
Buddhist Critiques .......................................... 46
Buddhist Methods for Liberation ............................. 50
Buddhist Consumer Activism .................................. 57
Pure Land Buddhism and Its Perspective on the Environment
by Mitsuya Dake ................................................ 63
Introduction ................................................ 63
Pure Land Buddhism and the Environment ...................... 64
The Ecological Perspectives Seen in the Idea of the Pure
Land ........................................................ 68
The Tension between the Ideal and the Actual in Buddhism .... 71
Shinran's Radical Understanding of the Pure Land and the
Environment ................................................. 73
Postscript .................................................. 76
Gary Snyder's Ecosocial Buddhism
by David Landis Barnhill ....................................... 83
Buddhism, Environmentalism, and Politics .................... 84
The Anarchist Tradition ..................................... 86
The Nature of Reality ....................................... 93
Snyder's Buddhist Ecosocial Critique ........................ 99
The Ideal: Eco -Buddhist Anarchism ......................... 102
The Path ................................................... 104
Conclusion ................................................. 111
A Buddhist Economics to Save the Earth
by Shinichi Inoue ............................................. 121
Borrowing from the Cosmos .................................. 121
Environmental Education .................................... 122
The Environmental and Social Assessment of Industries ...... 123
Agriculture as an Earth-Friendly Industry .................. 125
Unrestrained Consumption ................................... 127
Competition ................................................ 127
The Buddhist Approach to Money ............................. 129
Avoiding Waste by Recycling ................................ 130
The Noble Eightfold Path as a Prescription for Sustainable
Living
by Tetsunori Koizumi .......................................... 133
Introduction .................................................. 133
The Manifest versus the Latent World ....................... 134
The Manifest World as a Space for Interdependent Systems ... 135
The Noble Eightfold Path as a Set of Complementary
Principles ................................................. 137
The Noble Eightfold Path as a State of Systemic Balance .... 138
The Noble Eightfold Path as a Law of Conservation
of Matter-Energy ........................................... 140
Conclusion ................................................. 142
The Debate on Taking Life and Eating Meat in the Edo-Period
Jōdo Shin Tradition
by Ikuo Nakamura .............................................. 147
Taking Life and the Idea of the Karmic Wheel ............... 147
The Conversion of the Human-Animal Relation ................ 149
The Jōdo Shinshū Discussion of "Taking Life and Eating
Meat" ...................................................... 151
Hōonji Temple's Manaita-biraki ............................. 155
Is "Buddhist Environmentalism" a Contradiction in Terms?
by Malcolm David Eckel ........................................ 161
The Early Buddhist Tradition and Ecological Ethics
by Lambert Schmithausen ....................................... 171
Preliminary Considerations ................................. 171
Nature in the Context of the Ultimate Evaluation of
Existence .................................................. 177
Origination in Dependence and Ecological Ethics ............ 179
Early Buddhist Spirituality and Ethics in Relation to
Ecological Ethics .......................................... 181
Intramundane Evaluations of Nature ......................... 189
The Status of Animals ...................................... 193
Conclusion ................................................. 197
Index ......................................................... 223
About the Contributors ........................................ 219
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