Buddhist Environmental Ethics

<p><b>Brings Tibetan Buddhist philosophy contemplative practice and contemporary environmental ethics together to present a novel way of approaching the pressing issues facing our more-than-human world.</b></p><p>In <i>Buddhist Environmental Ethics</i> Colin H. Simonds presents a compelling case for using a contemplative register to approach some of our most pressing issues surrounding climate change ecological collapse and the exploitation of nonhuman animals. Simonds develops an emerging theory of Buddhist ethics-moral phenomenology-by engaging it with the Tibetan framework of <i>view</i><i> meditation</i><i> action</i> and providing a practical means by which individuals can ethically develop through contemplative practice. He then applies this theory and practical framework to the ethical and material problems facing the more-than-human world to show how a Tibetan Buddhist response to these issues offers a cogent adaptable way to address environmental problems. In doing so <i>Buddhist Environmental Ethics </i>forwards the first book-length constructive argument for an eco-Buddhist ethic in over a decade articulates the first environmental ethic based on Tibetan Buddhist sources and offers a timely framework for how we can experience the more-than-human world anew through contemplative practice.</p>