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    May 21, 2019 5 minutes
    By Andrea Miller

    GREEN BUDDHISM

    Practice and Compassionate Action in Uncertain Times

    By Stephanie Kaza

    Shambhala Publications 2019; 264 pp., $18.95 (paper)

    Stephanie Kaza, professor emerita of environmental studies, likes to say that she first took the path of Green Buddhism when, at age five, she was sitting on the deck off her bedroom and found herself spellbound by the shimmering leaves and soft shadows of an apple tree. “This light show was the center of the universe,” she remembers. “Some great mystery penetrated my young consciousness.” Today, Kaza is still exploring the spiritual dimension of the natural world. In part one of , she examines intimacy when it’s free of the usual conditioning of the self. In part two, she shines a light on the historical connection between Buddhism and ecology and considers the possibility has also just been reissued by Shambhala Publications.

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