Author: Jeffrey Moser
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824898176
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Countless Sands presents engaging analyses of the diverse relationships between Buddhism and the environment that existed in medieval Asia. Recent years have witnessed a surge in publications across the humanities that advance powerful ethical and political arguments to account for the human failure to respond effectively to global climate change. While the contributors to this volume are attuned to this challenge, rather than present explicit political arguments, they pursue a subtler effort to historicize the environment as a site and subject of Buddhist practice while providing research grounded in rigorous analysis of complex and fragmentary sources. The volume thereby mitigates against the Orientalist, East-West binaries that have long informed the invocation of Buddhism in Euro-American environmental discourses. As the chapters collectively demonstrate, there was no singular, consistently “Buddhist” understanding of the natural world, but innumerable, varied engagements preserved in discrete texts, images, and artifacts. Through specific case studies, the authors consider such questions as: How did premodern Buddhists understand what we today call “the environment”? How did they think about their earth? How, when, and where did the various processes of the earth actually impinge on the practices of historical Buddhists? What kinds of “environmental imaginations” informed specific Buddhist practices? In so doing, the authors explore the connections between the ways in which historical Buddhist communities interacted with their environments and how they understood those environments. In the broader field of Buddhist studies, Countless Sands contributes to ongoing efforts to expand the locus of inquiry from textually based investigations of Buddhist doctrine to a broader examination of the complex and varied place of Buddhism in the lives of historical communities. The book furthers this broader process by casting it in environmental terms and will engage readers looking for models of thought-provoking historical analysis on environmental themes.
Countless Sands
Author: Jeffrey Moser
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824898176
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Countless Sands presents engaging analyses of the diverse relationships between Buddhism and the environment that existed in medieval Asia. Recent years have witnessed a surge in publications across the humanities that advance powerful ethical and political arguments to account for the human failure to respond effectively to global climate change. While the contributors to this volume are attuned to this challenge, rather than present explicit political arguments, they pursue a subtler effort to historicize the environment as a site and subject of Buddhist practice while providing research grounded in rigorous analysis of complex and fragmentary sources. The volume thereby mitigates against the Orientalist, East-West binaries that have long informed the invocation of Buddhism in Euro-American environmental discourses. As the chapters collectively demonstrate, there was no singular, consistently “Buddhist” understanding of the natural world, but innumerable, varied engagements preserved in discrete texts, images, and artifacts. Through specific case studies, the authors consider such questions as: How did premodern Buddhists understand what we today call “the environment”? How did they think about their earth? How, when, and where did the various processes of the earth actually impinge on the practices of historical Buddhists? What kinds of “environmental imaginations” informed specific Buddhist practices? In so doing, the authors explore the connections between the ways in which historical Buddhist communities interacted with their environments and how they understood those environments. In the broader field of Buddhist studies, Countless Sands contributes to ongoing efforts to expand the locus of inquiry from textually based investigations of Buddhist doctrine to a broader examination of the complex and varied place of Buddhism in the lives of historical communities. The book furthers this broader process by casting it in environmental terms and will engage readers looking for models of thought-provoking historical analysis on environmental themes.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824898176
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Countless Sands presents engaging analyses of the diverse relationships between Buddhism and the environment that existed in medieval Asia. Recent years have witnessed a surge in publications across the humanities that advance powerful ethical and political arguments to account for the human failure to respond effectively to global climate change. While the contributors to this volume are attuned to this challenge, rather than present explicit political arguments, they pursue a subtler effort to historicize the environment as a site and subject of Buddhist practice while providing research grounded in rigorous analysis of complex and fragmentary sources. The volume thereby mitigates against the Orientalist, East-West binaries that have long informed the invocation of Buddhism in Euro-American environmental discourses. As the chapters collectively demonstrate, there was no singular, consistently “Buddhist” understanding of the natural world, but innumerable, varied engagements preserved in discrete texts, images, and artifacts. Through specific case studies, the authors consider such questions as: How did premodern Buddhists understand what we today call “the environment”? How did they think about their earth? How, when, and where did the various processes of the earth actually impinge on the practices of historical Buddhists? What kinds of “environmental imaginations” informed specific Buddhist practices? In so doing, the authors explore the connections between the ways in which historical Buddhist communities interacted with their environments and how they understood those environments. In the broader field of Buddhist studies, Countless Sands contributes to ongoing efforts to expand the locus of inquiry from textually based investigations of Buddhist doctrine to a broader examination of the complex and varied place of Buddhism in the lives of historical communities. The book furthers this broader process by casting it in environmental terms and will engage readers looking for models of thought-provoking historical analysis on environmental themes.
The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art
Prayers and meditations for daily use in the households of Israelites
Author: Charlotte de Rothschild
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Miscellaneous Poems. By C.K.T.
Musa latina aberdonensis: Arthur Johnston, ed. by Sir W. D. Geddes. 1892-95
Author: William Duguid Geddes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : College verse, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : College verse, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Fruits of a retired life: a selection of poems, with a mem. of the author
Project Self
Author: M. L. Tuck
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1493100726
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Project Self is a poetry collection allowing you to connect thought, emotion, and inspiration. The gravity of the content depends upon how you project yourself.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1493100726
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Project Self is a poetry collection allowing you to connect thought, emotion, and inspiration. The gravity of the content depends upon how you project yourself.
Annual Convention
Author: National Shorthand Reporters' Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shorthand
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shorthand
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Musa latina aberdonensis
Author: William Duguid Geddes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : College verse
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : College verse
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
The Poems of B.I. Durward
Author: Bernard Isaac Durward
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description