Darwin Meets the Buddha
Human Nature, Buddha Nature, Wild Nature
Did you hear? Charles Darwin has invited Siddhartha Gautama to hike the Appalachian Trail through the Great Smoky Mountains. What stories will they share? What advice might they offer for living in modern times? What might they say about solving global environmental crises? Some hints: they begin with the nature of human dissatisfaction. And how humans form social hierarchies with rulers. The nature of memory. And even desire for meat. They also talk about birdwatchers, matchmakers, sex, tyrants, lobsters, peacocks, Stalin, the French Revolution, and, yes, even giant ground sloths. Enlightenment, too. So, pick up your backpack, and join the a…
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- ISBN: 978-1-896559-57-5
- EAN: 9781896559575
- Produktnummer: 33760358
- Verlag: The Sumeru Press Inc.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 242 S.
- Masse: H22.8 cm x B14.9 cm x D2.0 cm 394 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 394
Über den Autor
Dr. Paul Keddy has been a professor of ecology for 30 years, and has published over 100 scholarlypapers and six books. He has been designated a Highly Cited Researcher, awarded the NationalWetlands Award for Science Research by the Environmental Law Institute, and recognised by the Society of Wetland Scientists with the Lifetime Achievement Award. The focus of his work has been upon the principles that organize plant communities, with particular emphasis upon wetlands.Keddy has been a Buddhist practitioner since the early 1980s. He has lived in the forest much longer than Thoreau, and he is catching up to Charles Darwin and St. Francis of Assisi.
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