Walking the Path of Environmental Buddhism by His Holiness the 17th Karmapa
November 19, 2011
For many years, His Holiness the 17th Gylwang Karmapa, Orgyen Trinley Dorje, has been an avid environmentalist. In 2009, due to his immense compassion for all beings, he released his '108 Things to Do to Help the Environment'. Since then the subject of conservation has been a focal point in many of his teachings and he actively encourages all of his Kagyu monasteries to do everything they can to help the environment - from planting trees to saving the lives of animals to finding alternative power supplies.Now he has been invited by the infuential journal "Conservation Biology" to contribute an article on what he sees as the future of Environmental Buddhism.
The article, entitled "Walking the Path of Environmental Buddhism through Compassion and Emptiness", outlines his own personal reasons for wanting to do all he can to help the environment and how caring for the environment overlaps so naturally with the Buddhist way of life. He ends by encouraging us all to do whatever we can to help the environment for the benefit of all sentient beings now and in the future.
You can read his inspiring and thought provoking article in full here
