[PDF] Ordination of a Tree The

• Author : Susan M. Darlington
• Publisher : SUNY Press
• Release Date : 2012-11-15
• ISBN : 9781438444666

A firsthand look at the Thai Buddhist environmental movement and its activist monks.

• Author : Mark D. Schulze,David F. Whitacre
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1999
• ISBN : MINN:31951D02269143U

• Author : Kathleen M. Adams,Kathleen Gillogly,Kathleen A. Gillogly
• Publisher : Indiana University Press
• Release Date : 2011
• ISBN : 9780253223210

This lively survey of the peoples, cultures, and societies of Southeast Asia introduces a region of tremendous geographic, linguistic, historical, and religious diversity. Encompassing both mainland and island countries, these engaging essays describe personhood and identity, family and household organization, nation-states, religion, popular culture and the arts, the legacies of war and recovery, globalization, and the environment. Throughout, the focus is on the daily lives and experiences of ordinary people. Most of the essays are original to this volume, while

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : BRILL
• Release Date : 2014-08-12
• ISBN : 9789004273221

Environmental and Climate Change in South and Southeast Asia offers a cultural studies' perspective on how local cultures cope with climate changes and environmental crises. The focus is on Hindu India, Islamic Indonesia, Buddhist Thailand, and Himalayan glaciers.

• Author : Lester R. Kurtz
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2018-05-23
• ISBN : 9780429999376

This book looks at two contradictory ethical motifs—the warrior and the pacifist—across four major faith traditions—Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—and their role in shaping our understanding of violence and the morality of its use. The Warrior and the Pacifist explores how these faith traditions, which now mutually inhabit our life spaces, bring with them across the millennia the moral teachings that have traveled from prehistoric humanity, embedded in the beliefs, rituals, and institutions socially constructed by

• Author : Sallie B. King
• Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
• Release Date : 2009-01-19
• ISBN : 9780824833350

Socially Engaged Buddhism is an introduction to the contemporary movement of Buddhists, East and West, who actively engage with the problems of the world—social, political, economic, and environmental—on the basis of Buddhist ideas, values, and spirituality. Sallie B. King, one of North America’s foremost experts on the subject, identifies in accessible language the philosophical and ethical thinking behind the movement and examines how key principles such as karma, the Four Noble Truths, interdependence, nonharmfulness, and nonjudgmentalism relate

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2003
• ISBN : UCR:31210017975630

• Author : Lucius BOLLES
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1819
• ISBN : BL:A0021939105

• Author : Paul Greenough,Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
• Publisher : Duke University Press
• Release Date : 2003-08-29
• ISBN : 0822331497

A nuanced look at how nature has been culturally constructed in South and Southeast Asia, Nature in the Global South is a major contribution to understandings of the politics and ideologies of environmentalism and development in a postcolonial epoch. Among the many significant paradigms for understanding both the preservation and use of nature in these regions are biological classification, state forest management, tropical ecology, imperial water control, public health, and community-based conservation. Focusing on these and other ways that nature

• Author : Jonas Erik Lawesson
• Publisher : Nordic Council of Ministers
• Release Date : 2000
• ISBN : 9289304340

• Author : Aaron M. Ellison,Frank S. Gilliam
• Publisher : MDPI
• Release Date : 2019-07-30
• ISBN : 9783039213092

This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue Causes and Consequences of Species Diversity in Forest Ecosystems that was published in Forests

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1923
• ISBN : UOM:39015057348750

• Author : F. I. Woodward,Woodward F I
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release Date : 1987-04-23
• ISBN : 0521282144

Correlation between plant distribution and climate is examined over different time and space scales to determine the mechanisms of control in physiological and biochemical terms.

• Author : Josiah Howard Temple
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1889
• ISBN : HARVARD:32044013694484

• Author : Wesley K. Mettert
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1986
• ISBN : UOM:39015071324688