{"id":4041,"date":"2015-07-27T12:24:06","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T16:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/?p=4041"},"modified":"2015-07-27T12:24:06","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T16:24:06","slug":"holistic-eco-buddhism-and-the-problem-of-universal-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2015\/07\/27\/holistic-eco-buddhism-and-the-problem-of-universal-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"Holistic Eco-Buddhism and the Problem of Universal Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>ISSN 1076-9005<br \/>\nVolume 22, 2015<\/h6>\n<h3>Nature\u2019s No-Thingness: Holistic Eco-Buddhism and the Problem of Universal Identity<\/h3>\n<p>Marek Sullivan<br \/>\nUniversity of Oxford<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHolistic eco-Buddhism\u201d has been roundly criticized for its heterodoxy and philosophical incoherence: the Buddha never claimed we should protect an \u201ceco-self\u201d and there are serious philosophical problems attendant on \u201cidentifying with things.\u201d Yet this essay finds inadequate attention has been paid to East Asian sources. Metaphysical issues surrounding eco-Buddhism, i.e., problems of identity and difference, universalism and particularity, have a long history in Chinese Buddhism. In particular, I examine the notion of \u201cmerging with things\u201d in pre-Huayan and Huayan Buddhism, suggesting these offer unexplored possibilities for a coherent holistic eco-Buddhism based on the differentiating effects of activity and functionality.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/files\/2015\/07\/JBE-Sullivan.pdf\">Read article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 22, 2015 Nature\u2019s No-Thingness: Holistic Eco-Buddhism and the Problem of Universal Identity Marek Sullivan University of Oxford \u201cHolistic eco-Buddhism\u201d has been roundly criticized for its heterodoxy and philosophical incoherence: the Buddha never claimed we should protect an \u201ceco-self\u201d and there are serious philosophical problems attendant on \u201cidentifying with things.\u201d Yet this essay &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2015\/07\/27\/holistic-eco-buddhism-and-the-problem-of-universal-identity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Holistic Eco-Buddhism and the Problem of Universal Identity<\/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":[2720,2642,2545,2663,2668,2594,1317,2611,2732,2592,1229],"class_list":["post-4041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volume-22-2015","tag-bodhisattva","tag-chinese-buddhism","tag-environment","tag-indian-buddhism","tag-japanese-buddhism","tag-mahayana","tag-philosophy","tag-santideva","tag-selflessness","tag-theravada","tag-western"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5X8HA-13b","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4041","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=4041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}