Buddhist Environmental Ethics - A Contemplative Approach

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.
In Buddhist Environmental Ethics, 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 view, meditation, action 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, Buddhist Environmental Ethics 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.

About the author

Colin H. Simonds is Assistant Lecturer of Religion at the University of Alberta.

Product details

• Authors: Colin H. Simonds
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 08.11.2025
• EAN: 9798855804973
• ISBN: 979-8-8558-0497-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Weight: 490 g
• Series: SUNY series, Perspectives in Contemplative Studies
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Other world religions; BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Mindfulness & Meditation, RELIGION / Buddhism / Rituals & Practice, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Buddhist, RELIGION / Buddhism / Tibetan, Mind, body, spirit: meditation & visualisation, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Buddhist life & practice, Mind, body, spirit: meditation and visualization, Buddhist life and practice, East Asian and Indian philosophy, Oriental & Indian philosophy, Tibetan Buddhism, PHILOSOPHY / Environmental