{"id":4015,"date":"2015-04-17T09:25:11","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T13:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/?p=4015"},"modified":"2015-04-17T09:25:11","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T13:25:11","slug":"everyday-religion-and-public-health-in-kathmandu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2015\/04\/17\/everyday-religion-and-public-health-in-kathmandu\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyday Religion and Public Health in Kathmandu"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>ISSN 1076-9005<br \/>\nVolume 22, 2015<\/h6>\n<h3><em>Pu\u1e47ya<\/em> and <em>P\u0101p<\/em> in Public Health: Everyday Religion, Material Culture, and Avenues of Buddhist Activism in Urban Kathmandu<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>Todd Lewis<br \/>\nCollege of the Holy Cross<\/p>\n<p>In the dense settlements of old Kathmandu city, an urban ecology is fueled by abundant natural resources and sustained by a complex web of predator and prey species, all in a space dominated by human presence and practices. These include everyday activities in temples, roads, and homes that are rooted in Buddhist and Hindu doctrines. Both traditions emphasize non-violence (<em>ahi\u1e43s\u0101<\/em>) to all living beings, and adherents seek merit (<em>pu\u1e47ya<\/em>) daily from feeding some of them. In light of the still chronic outbreaks of diseases like cholera, and especially in light of the threat of future avian-vector epidemics, a new avenue of doctrinal interpretation favoring human intervention might be developed based on the <em>Bodhicary\u0101vat\u0101ra<\/em>, an important Mah\u0101y\u0101na Buddhist text. In the spirit of \u201cengaged Buddhism,\u201d the discussion concludes with suggestions on how Newar Buddhist teachers today can use their cultural resources to shift their community\u2019s ethical standpoint and take effective actions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/files\/2015\/04\/Lewis-Punya-final.pdf\">Read article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 22, 2015 Pu\u1e47ya and P\u0101p in Public Health: Everyday Religion, Material Culture, and Avenues of Buddhist Activism in Urban Kathmandu Todd Lewis College of the Holy Cross In the dense settlements of old Kathmandu city, an urban ecology is fueled by abundant natural resources and sustained by a complex web of predator &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2015\/04\/17\/everyday-religion-and-public-health-in-kathmandu\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Everyday Religion and Public Health in Kathmandu<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[99217],"tags":[2647,56622,2745,2693,1939,2545,2594,2719,99226,2646,2611],"class_list":["post-4015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volume-22-2015","tag-ahimsa","tag-animal-rights","tag-animals","tag-compassion","tag-death","tag-environment","tag-mahayana","tag-nepal","tag-newars","tag-non-violence","tag-santideva"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5X8HA-12L","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}