Ecology, Ethics, and Interdependence: The Dalai Lama in Conversation with Leading Thinkers on Climate Change

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John D. Dunne, Daniel Goleman
Wisdom Publications, Oct 23, 2018 - Nature - 344 pages
Powerful conversations between His Holiness the Dalai Lama and leading scientists on the most pressing issue of our time.

Engage with leading scientists, academics, ethicists, and activists, as well as His Holiness the Dalai Lama and His Holiness the Karmapa, who gathered in Dharamsala, India, for the twenty-third Mind and Life conference to discuss arguably the most urgent questions facing humanity today:
  • What is happening to our planet?
  • What can we do about it?
  • How do we balance the concerns of people against the rights of animals and against the needs of an ecosystem?
  • What is the most skillful way to enact change?
  • And how do we fight on, even when our efforts seem to bear no fruit?

Inspiring, edifying, and transformative, this should be required reading for any citizen of the world.

About the author (2018)

John D. Dunne serves on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he holds the Distinguished Chair in Contemplative Humanities at the Center for Healthy Minds. He is also chair of the Department of Asian Languages & Cultures. His work focuses on Buddhist philosophy and contemplative practice, especially in dialog with Cognitive Science and Psychology. His more than fifty publications appear in venues ranging across both the Humanities and the Sciences, including Foundations of Dharmakirti’s Philosophy (2004) and Science and Philosophy in the Indian Buddhist Classics: The Mind (2020). John Dunne speaks in both academic and public contexts, and he occasionally teaches for Buddhist communities. His broader engagements include being a Fellow of the Mind and Life Institute, where he was previously a member of the board of directors, and serving as an academic advisor to the Rangjung Yeshe Institute in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Bibliographic information

TitleEcology, Ethics, and Interdependence: The Dalai Lama in Conversation with Leading Thinkers on Climate Change
EditorsJohn D. Dunne, Daniel Goleman
PublisherWisdom Publications, 2018
ISBN1614294941, 9781614294948
Length344 pages
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Nature / Ecology
Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection
Philosophy / Buddhist
  
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