作者: Julia Shaw
DOI: 10.1080/00438243.2016.1250671
关键词: Well-being 、 Hinduism 、 Element (criminal law) 、 Relevance (law) 、 Non-human 、 History 、 Dukkha 、 Environmentalism 、 Buddhism 、 Environmental ethics
摘要: ABSTRACTThis paper assesses archaeology’s contribution to debates regarding the ecological focus of early Buddhism and Hinduism its relevance global environmentalism. Evidence for long-term human:non-human entanglement, socio-economically constructed element ‘nature’ on which Indic culture supposedly rests, challenges post-colonial tropes India’s utopian, ‘eco-friendly’ past, whilst also highlighting potency individual epistemologies building historically grounded models Indian For Buddhism, I mediate between two polarized views: one promoting idea ‘eco-dharma’ as a reflection Buddhism’s alignment with non-violence (ahiṃsā), alleviation suffering (dukkha); second arguing that Buddhist traditions have been misappropriated by western argue latter view subscribes canonical passive monks removed from worldly concerns, despite archaeological evidence socially-eng...