Engaged Buddhist Practice and Ecological Ethics

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" Engaged Buddhist Practice and Ecological Ethics "
Charles Strain

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1086045
Doc. No	:	LA129674
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15685357-02002004‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Charles Strain
Title & Author	:	Engaged Buddhist Practice and Ecological Ethics [Article]\ Charles Strain
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology
Date	:	2016
Volume/ Issue Number	:	20/2
Page No	:	189–210
Abstract	:	Engaged Buddhist approaches to an ecological ethics can be read as a case study of the reinvention of Buddhism within the matrix of Western cultures. Three challenges have been raised to these efforts: first, engaged Buddhists have projected back onto the early Buddhist tradition modern formulations of ancient teachings in particular that of dependent co-arising (pratitya samutpada); second, Buddhists associated with the deep ecology movement have offered a form of holism that is “ethically vacuous;” third, while Buddhist virtue ethics are immune to some of these criticisms, they fail in face of the urgency of the challenge presented by climate change and do not offer a way of addressing entrenched power that impedes action. The article takes up each of these challenges and argues that these Buddhist “Eco-constructivists” perform a midrash on the Buddhist tradition that is geared towards praxis; it offers forms of practice that are hardly ethically vacuous. Engaged Buddhist approaches to an ecological ethics can be read as a case study of the reinvention of Buddhism within the matrix of Western cultures. Three challenges have been raised to these efforts: first, engaged Buddhists have projected back onto the early Buddhist tradition modern formulations of ancient teachings in particular that of dependent co-arising (pratitya samutpada); second, Buddhists associated with the deep ecology movement have offered a form of holism that is “ethically vacuous;” third, while Buddhist virtue ethics are immune to some of these criticisms, they fail in face of the urgency of the challenge presented by climate change and do not offer a way of addressing entrenched power that impedes action. The article takes up each of these challenges and argues that these Buddhist “Eco-constructivists” perform a midrash on the Buddhist tradition that is geared towards praxis; it offers forms of practice that are hardly ethically vacuous.
Descriptor	:	bioregional reinhabitation
Descriptor	:	Buddhist ethics
Descriptor	:	climate change
Descriptor	:	ecological ethics
Descriptor	:	virtue ethics
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15685357-02002004‬