Rel & Soc Development

Religion & Society Development
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(January 31, 2012)
Religion & Society Development
The summary of To Save All Beings: Buddhist Environmental Activism, in Engaged Buddhism in the West by Kaza.
Kaza`s article seeks to relate religion with environment. It defines the role of Buddhist activists in the overall improvement of the ecosystem. It effectively does this through the assistance of a small group known as the ecosattva. Being a small group which is committed to conserve environment, ecosattva aimed at saving all beings by granting them a habitable place to live in. Both ecosattva and bodhisattva significantly contributed established an environmental activism. They did this with an aim of saving the endangered species, forests and rivers. Having been motivated by some ecological concerns, Buddhists established an eco-spiritual activism movement. The association also triggered development of a parallel academic development course in Religion and Ecology field (Kaza, 2000).
As Joanna Macy suggested, Buddhism is currently undergoing a major revolutionary shift towards environmental improvement. The same has been observed in Northern America, where Buddhist has likewise joined their counterparts in promoting the ecosystem. Buddhists teachers and students continue to use literature in airing their views and ideas to their fellow colleagues. Led by his holiness Dalai Lama they were able to convince other faithful Buddhists on the need to conserve the environment. The environmental conservation spirit has also reported a strong relationship across the world, notably the tree-ordaining activity in Thailand. Such global initiative agendas has really boosted and inspired other Buddhists in North America (Kaza, 2000). Having analyzed the connection between Buddhists and ecosystem, it is quite appropriate for us to investigate whether there is sustainability of that issue in th...