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Editor's Preface "How Much Is Enough?": Buddhism and the Human Environment
by Richard K. Payne
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Acknowledgements
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xii
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Introduction Just How Much Is Enough?
by Richard K. Payne
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1
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Global Perspectives on the Environment
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3
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Contents of the Collection
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4
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Final Thoughts
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14
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Buddhist Environmentalism in Contemporary Japan
by Duncan Ry&ubar;ken Williams
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17
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"To the Honorable Mitsui Real Estate Company: Plants and Trees Have Buddha Nature"
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17
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Establishment Buddhism and Sect-Wide Environmentalism: The Case of the S&obar;t&obar; Zen "Green Plan"
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20
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Japanese Engaged Buddhism and the Search for an Alternative Paradigm: The Case of Juk&obar;in Temple
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23
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Conservative Japanese Buddhist Environmentalism in Local and Global Contexts
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28
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Conclusion
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33
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How Much Is Enough?: Buddhist Perspectives on Consumerism
by Stephanie Kaza
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39
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Introduction
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39
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The Scope and Impact of Consumption
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40
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Traditional Critiques of Consumerism
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45
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Buddhist Critiques
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46
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Buddhist Methods for Liberation
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50
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Buddhist Consumer Activism
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57
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Pure Land Buddhism and Its Perspective on the Environment
by Mitsuya Dake
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63
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Introduction
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63
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Pure Land Buddhism and the Environment
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64
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The Ecological Perspectives Seen in the Idea of the Pure Land
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68
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The Tension between the Ideal and the Actual in Buddhism
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71
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Shinran's Radical Understanding of the Pure Land and the Environment
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73
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Postscript
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76
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Gary Snyder's Ecosocial Buddhism
by David Landis Barnhill
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83
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Buddhism, Environmentalism, and Politics
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84
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The Anarchist Tradition
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86
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The Nature of Reality
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93
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Snyder's Buddhist Ecosocial Critique
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99
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The Ideal: Eco-Buddhist Anarchism
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102
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The Path
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104
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Conclusion
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111
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A Buddhist Economics to Save the Earth
by Shinichi Inoue
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121
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Borrowing from the Cosmos
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121
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Environmental Education
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122
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The Environmental and Social Assessment of Industries
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123
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Agriculture as an Earth-Friendly Industry
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125
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Unrestrained Consumption
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127
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Competition
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127
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The Buddhist Approach to Money
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129
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Avoiding Waste by Recycling
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130
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The Noble Eightfold Path as a Prescription for Sustainable Living
by Tetsunori Koizumi
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133
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Introduction
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133
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The Manifest versus the Latent World
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134
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The Manifest World as a Space for Interdependent Systems
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135
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The Noble Eightfold Path as a Set of Complementary Principles
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137
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The Noble Eightfold Path as a State of Systemic Balance
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138
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The Noble Eightfold Path as a Law of Conservation of Matter-Energy
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140
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Conclusion
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142
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The Debate on Taking Life and Eating Meat in the Edo-Period J&obar;do Shin Tradition
by Ikuo Nakamura
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147
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Taking Life and the Idea of the Karmic Wheel
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147
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The Conversion of the Human-Animal Relation
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149
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The J&obar;do Shinsh&ubar; Discussion of "Taking Life and Eating Meat"
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151
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H&obar;onji Temple's Manaita-biraki
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155
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Is "Buddhist Environmentalism" a Contradiction in Terms?
by Malcolm David Eckel
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161
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The Early Buddhist Tradition and Ecological Ethics
by Lambert Schmithausen
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171
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Preliminary Considerations
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171
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Nature in the Context of the Ultimate Evaluation of Existence
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177
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Origination in Dependence and Ecological Ethics
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179
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Early Buddhist Spirituality and Ethics in Relation to Ecological Ethics
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181
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Intramundane Evaluations of Nature
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189
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The Status of Animals
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193
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Conclusion
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197
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Index
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223
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About the Contributors
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229
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