Contents: Introduction/Julia Martin. I. Desire and development in a suffering world: 1. Universal responsibility/H.H. Dalai Lama. 2. Our houses all shattered, we come home to emptiness/Ramachandra Gandhi. 3. Gratitude towards everything that lives/Radha Burnier. 4. The crisis and challenge of our time: the Buddhist response of right understanding/Samdhong Rinpoche. 5. Exchanging self for others/H.H. Kyabgon Sakya Trizin. 6. Where else than in mind-only? Transforming the old history and creating the new/Noritoshi Aramaki. 7. The relevance of right understanding/H.E. Neville Kanakaratne. 8. Buddha and mother earth/Robert A.F. Thurman. 9. Developed craving: a meditation on the ecocrisis/Ven. Kamburupitiye Ariyasena. 10. Buddhism, poverty, environment and development/Kamla Chowdhry. 11. Critique of our ongoing development system/Jose A. Lutzenberger. 12. Mindfulness of extinction/Allan Hunt Badiner. II. Compassionate engagement: 1. If the Buddha were alive today, he would compose folk songs/Shri Sunderlal Bahuguna. 2. Resolving ecological class conflict: economic and political change is a prerequisite for value change/Ramachandra Guha. 3. An ethical lifestyle as a strategy for survival/Lily de Silva. 4. Redeeming the world by healing the earth: universal compassion and the ecological dharma/Henryk Skolimowski. 5. Green dharma: Buddhism and ecological activism in Thailand/Chatsumarn Kabilsingh. 6. All the cries of the world: notes and questions for an eco-Buddhist practice/Julia Martin. 7. Universal responsibility/Ravindra Varma. 8. Towards an economy of compassion/Stanislav Menshikov. 9. Towards right living: interfaith co-operation for equitable and sustainable development/John B. Taylor. 10. Revaluing our global responsibility: the wisdom of collective activism/Christopher Titmuss. 11. Towards ecological responsibility: an appeal for commitment/New Delhi Conference Appeal, October 1993. Further reading.

"What do Buddhism and ecology have to say to one another?. This book is the result of the conference "Ecological Responsibility : A Dialogue with Buddhism", which was held in New Delhi to explore this question. The essays collected here interpret this focus on dialogue by asking questions about mutual reciprocity : how can Buddhist teaching and practice enable people to work towards healing the environment, and how, at the same time is the global environmental crisis shaping and redefining people's understanding of 'Buddhism'." (jacket)