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Roaming Free Like a Deer - Buddhism and the Natural World (Paperback)
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Roaming Free Like a Deer - Buddhism and the Natural World (Paperback)
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By exploring lived ecological experiences across seven Buddhist
worlds from ancient India to the contemporary West, Roaming Free
Like a Deer provides a comprehensive, critical, and innovative
examination of the theories, practices, and real-world results of
Buddhist environmental ethics. Daniel Capper clarifies crucial
contours of Buddhist vegetarianism or meat eating, nature
mysticism, and cultural speculations about spirituality in nonhuman
animals. Buddhist environmental ethics often are touted as useful
weapons in the fight against climate change. However, two
formidable but often overlooked problems with this perspective
exist. First, much of the literature on Buddhist environmental
ethics uncritically embraces Buddhist ideals without examining the
real-world impacts of those ideals, thereby sometimes ignoring
difficulties in terms of practical applications. Moreover, for some
understandable but still troublesome reasons, Buddhists from
different schools follow their own environmental ideals without
conversing with other Buddhists, thereby minimizing the abilities
of Buddhists to act in concert on issues such as climate change
that demand coordinated large-scale human responses. With its
accessible style and personhood ethics orientation, Roaming Free
Like a Deer should appeal to anyone who is concerned with how human
beings interact with the nonhuman environment.
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