xv, 292 pages :illustrations ;23 cm; Introduction / / David R. Loy and John Stanley. The Buddhadharma and the planetary crisis ; Overview of the book -- Part I: Mind, heart, and nature / The Fourteenth Dalai Lama. Universal responsibility and the climate emergency ; The sheltering tree of interdependence : a Buddhist monk's reflections on ecological responsibility -- Part II: Global warming science : a Buddhist approach / John Stanley. Climate, science, and Buddhism ; Our own geological epoch : the Anthropocene ; "The celestial order disrupted loosens plague, famine, and war-- " ; Climate breakdown at the third pole : Tibet ; The road from denial to agricultural collapse ; The peak oil factor ; Scientific predictions of ecological karma ; The sixth great extinction ; What makes us do it? ; A safe-climate future -- Part III: Asian Buddhist perspectives. Preface: The meaning of aspirational prayer / Gyurme Dorje ; Pure aspiration, Bodhisattva activity, and a safe-climate future / Gyalwang Karmapa XVII ; The global ecological crisis : an aspirational prayer / Kyabje Sakya Trizin Rinpoche ; The Mandala of the four energies in the Kaliyuga ; A prayer to protect the earth / Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche ; When snow mountains wear black hats ; An aspirational prayer to avert global warming / Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche ; A prayer to protect the world's environment / Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche ; Human intelligence without wisdom can destroy nature / Ato Rinpoche ; The Bodhisattva path at a time of crisis / Ringu Tulku Rinpoche ; Very dangerous territory / Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche ; A new meaning of chu ("beings") and no ("environment") has emerged / Tsoknyi Rinpoche ; Minimum needs and maximum contentment / Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche -- Part IV: Western Buddhist perspectives. The voice of the Golden Goose / Bhikkhu Bodhi ; Woe unto us! / Robert Aitken Roshi ; On being with our world / Joanna Macy ; "Except as we have loved, all news arrives as from a distant land" / Joseph Goldstein ; Now the whole planet has its head on fire / Taigen Dan Leighton ; The untellable nonstory of global warming / Susan Murphy ; The future doesn't hurt... yet / Matthieu Ricard ; The world is what you make it : a Zen view of global responsibility / Hozan Alan Senauke ; The rising temperature of Planet Earth / Lin Jensen -- Part V: Solutions / John Stanley, Diane Stanley. Clarity, acceptance, altruism : beyond the climate of denial ; A renewable future ; Five transformative powers ; The end of energy waste ; Goodbye to the internal combustion engine ; Tradable energy quotas ; Drawing down carbon with biochar ; Reducing the carbon footprint of the meat industry ; Ending deforestation ; Reforesting the earth -- Part VI: The bells of mindfulness / Thich Nhat Hanh -- Afterword. Endorsement of a safe level for atmospheric carbon dioxide / The Dalai Lama ; What's next? / David R. Loy and John Stanley. 

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