[This is an article I wrote for the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies’ Insight Journal in March of 2020. The original version, a pdf with bibliography, and many articles by other authors relevant to socially and ecologically engaged Buddhism, visit Insight Journal here.] ‘Collapse’ is a scary word. From the Latin prefix col-, meaning ‘together,’ and…
Category: Essay
Decolonizing Dependent Arising
This is a short paper presented at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Diego, November 25, 2019. It outlines the limitations of the categories of “philosophy” and “religion” for examining Buddhist thought and practice and the generative ecological possibilities of decolonizing our approach to the study of Buddhism in the American academy. In…