Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2023
Abstract
What does it mean to be situated in a place, an environment? How might one conceptualize or reflect on emplacement? One might seek the origin story: how did we get here? What are we doing here? What obligations to the future of persons arise? Asia offers two distinct approaches, bridged by Buddhism and more recently Yoga. This essay will look at human-earth relations from five perspectives. The first two, Hinduism and Jainism, arise from the Indian subcontinent. Two others, Confucianism and Daoism, arise from China. Buddhism and Yoga serve as a bridge between India and China, the former during antiquity and the latter in the contemporary period. Each of these five traditions differs significantly from the worldview of the prophetic monotheisms, primarily in the absence of a creator deity or singular genesis narrative.
Original Publication Citation
Chapple, C. K. (2023). Ancient Roots of Environmental Relations in Asian Traditions: Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism. Journal of Ethics in Antiquity and Christianity, 92-98 Seiten. https://doi.org/10.25784/JEAC.V5I1.1246
Digital Commons @ LMU & LLS Citation
Chapple, Christopher Key, "Ancient Roots of Environmental Relations in Asian Traditions: Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism" (2023). Theological Studies Faculty Works. 628.
https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/theo_fac/628
