Conference Papers

Buddhist Ecology and Environmental Studies

The following papers were among those given at a seminar co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of World Religions and Dongguk University (Seoul, Korea) on December 9 and 10, 2005. The conference took place at the CSWR, and featured presentations from scholars representing a range of disciplines, including English, ethics, religious studies, East Asian studies, and anthropology. 

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• Ecological Contemplation as Spiritual Practice: The Case of Henry David Thoreau 
  by Lawrence Buell

• The New New (Buddhist?) Ecology
  by J. Baird Callicott

• Ritual and Risk: Environmental Buddhism in Practice
  by Susan M. Darlington

• "Environmentalists" Worldly and Other-Worldly: Wutaishan and the Question of What Makes a Buddhist Mountain "Sacred" 
  by Robert M. Gimello

• Humans as a Force for Global Environmental Change
  by Michael B. McElroy

• Purifying the Mind, Sanctifying the Earth: Visualizing Environmental Protection in Humanistic Buddhism in Taiwan
  by Zhiru Ng

• An Assessment of Buddhist Eco-Philosophy
  by Donald K. Swearer

• On the Transformation of the Tibetan Region into a Buddhist Landscape
  by Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp

Participants in the seminar. HDS photo/Rebecca Esterson.