Buddhistdoor View: Interconnected Consumption
Buddhistdoor Global
7 November 2014
Perhaps you are reading this editorial on your mobile phone and are looking to upgrade to a new model. The Fairphone, made by a Netherlands-based
Eco-Dharma and the Eight Worldly Winds
Luisa (Lulu) Cook
17 October 2014
A massive and historical mobilization of communities on behalf of the environment took place at People’s Climate rallies worldwide over the weekend of 20–21 September.
The Metta of Meals
Luisa (Lulu) Cook
15 August 2014
What would the practice of metta look like if we applied it to eating? The cultivation of an attitude of unconditional friendliness, or metta practice,
Buddhistdoor View: Climate Change is a Profound Moral Concern for Buddhists
Buddhistdoor Global
3 July 2014
Confronting the most significant environmental alteration in human memory demands two responses: adaptation (adjusting to the risks and consequences) and mitigation (how we lessen and
Waste and Contentment: What Landfills Teach Us
Mei Ling Fok
29 May 2014
The scene opens with what looks like the largest and dirtiest rubbish dump on the face of the earth. It is huge, with rubbish piled
Reducing plastic pollution in the place of Buddha’s Enlightenment
Lillian Sum
9 May 2014
Lillian Sum is the founding director of Sacred Earth Trust and is based in India. I first arrived in Bodhgaya in 2006. My first feelings
Vanishing Virtues: The Spirituality of China’s Ethnic Minorities
Raymond Lam
15 April 2014
In Chi Zhijian’s (遲子建) The Last Quarter of the Moon (额尔古纳河右岸), it is not inter-tribal conflict or the natural elements of snow and storm that destroy the
How Belief in Rebirth Might Protect the Earth
Luisa (Lulu) Cook
4 April 2014
An American Buddhist friend of mine recounted a conversation she had with another practitioner, one who comes from a clear, unwavering cultural confidence in the
Significance of Nature in Buddhism
Ven. Priya Rakkhit
7 February 2014
Editorial Note: Ven. Priya Rakkhit is a young Therav?da monk from the Chittagong Plain, Bangladesh. He is presently in Hong Kong pursuing Buddhist studies at
The Four Truths of Climate Change
Luisa (Lulu) Cook
4 January 2014
When we consider the ever-more-frequent headlines about large-scale devastation wrought by climate change, we see a metaphor for the human experience of suffering writ large.
Sustainability and Wellness: What are we even talking about?
Luisa (Lulu) Cook
5 December 2013
When you see the word sustainability, what associations come immediately to mind? This term is having its moment in the spotlight of public awareness, along with
Kung Fu Nuns Fight for Oxygen in Ladakh
Stella Peters
15 October 2013
Editor’s note: Stella Peters is a writer/photographer from Amsterdam who focuses on inequality and human interest stories. She is currently studying anthropology in an Advanced master’s programme