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environmentalism
The Buddhist Center Environmental Action Plan Toolkit
Publisher at The Sumeru Press John Negru presents an environmental toolkit for Buddhist activists and thinkers
Buddhist Voices in the Climate Crisis – Day 2 of 2
Our stream from the online conference “Buddhist Voices in the Climate Crisis”
Buddhist Voices in the Climate Crisis – Day 1 of 2
Our stream from the online conference “Buddhist Voices in the Climate Crisis”
How Dharma-Gaia is steering Hispanic Buddhism on a course of ecological justice
Born after the landmark symposium of Sakyadhita Spain’s 2nd International Symposium of Spanish-Speaking Buddhist Women (“Dharma-Gaia: Buddhism, Women, and the Climate Crisis”), the Dharma-Gaia organization arose as an idea among Sakyadhita’s management that there should be a network of environmental feminism that could intersect with the Buddhist community. This group of “Buddhist eco-feminists” is an […]
Blazing a Bodhisattva Trail in Cuba, with Ven. Zhihan
The reinvigoration of the Chinese Mahayana tradition in Cuba has largely been thanks to a single Buddhist monk, Taiwan-born Ven. Zhihan. Ven. Zhihan was already an established name in Vancouver, where he had founded the Bodhiyana Foundation, an educational non-profit devoted to spreading the Buddhist teachings. Ven. Zhihan is a charismatic and thoughtful religious leader, […]
Moral laziness, vegetarianism, and government intervention
This month Thomas Wells, a philosophy professor at Tilburg University in the Netherlands, offered a plea for more active government intervention in our lives. He couches his request in the language of ethics: particularly his own moral laziness. He writes: Some years ago, for instance, I worked through the arguments around animal rights and decided […]