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Jainism and Ecology Conference Participants and Abstracts

of paper: Toward a Possible Jain Environmental Ethic This essay starts with the recognition that Jainism as an ideology focused upon the path to liberation (moksha-marg) is distinctly not ecological or even proto-ecological. At the heart of this ideology is the goal of permanent separation of the soul from all matter; in such a dualist ideology any positive environmental impact is largely incidental. But the moksha-marg ideology is not the whole of Jainism, for Jainism also is a religious culture that provides people with a definition of a good life in this lifetime, what I have elsewhere termed the value of well-being. The realm of well-being involves a much less negative (albeit still not unreservedly positive) attitude toward the non-human world, toward the physical world, and toward our own physical embodiedness. This essay will be a reading of key aspects of Jain practice from an environmental/well-being perspective, to try to provide some potential bases for a Jain environmental ethic. Cromwell Crawford was born and raised in India of a Civil Service family. He holds graduate degrees from Serampore University, West Bengal, India, Indiana University and Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley. He is a Professor of Religion at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu. He teaches in the areas of Comparative Ethics and Religion and Medicine. His publications are chiefly in the field of Bioethics. Abstract of paper: Agenda 21: Jain Cosmology and Ethics for the Eco-Crisisof paper: Agenda 21: Jain Cosmology and Ethics for the Eco-Crisis Jain environmental ethics is based on 5 principles--Equality, Non-Violence, Reciprocity, Restraint, and Recompense. These principles are applied to address the major problems of : Biodiversity, Global Warming, Pollution, Waste, Over Population, and Nuclear Epidemic. Paul Dundas studies Sanskrit, Classics and Middle Indo-Aryan Philology at the Universities of Edinburgh and Cambridge and is currently Senior Lecturer in Sanskrit in the University
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