Eco-Bodhicitta and Artful Conduct
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At an October 1991 performance of chant by the Gyuto monks, Professor Huston Smith suggested that as the rain forests are to the world's physical atmosphere, so Tibet is to the world's spiritual atmosphere. I don't know whether I agree with his analogy, but I do find significance in linking Tibetan Buddhism and Ecology in one sentence. In fact, I believe that Buddhism in general, and Tibetan Buddhism in particular, express an ecological attitude, though the tradition itself would not use what we might initially recognize as ecological language. I make this assertion because I believe that Mahayana is ecologically conscious by its nature, and that tantra, as a mode of Mahayana, is in part a practical working out of techniques which express that ecologically conscious nature.
