Religion, ‘nature’ and environmental ethics in ancient India: archaeologies of human:non-human suffering and well-being in early Buddhist and Hindu contexts

作者: Julia Shaw

DOI: 10.1080/00438243.2016.1250671

关键词: Well-beingHinduismElement (criminal law)Relevance (law)Non-humanHistoryDukkhaEnvironmentalismBuddhismEnvironmental 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...