Yale University - South Asian Religions & Ecology 

Land Acknowledgement - John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker

Course Overview: South Asian Religions and Ecology

Personal Introduction - Mary Evelyn Tucker

Personal Introduction - John Grim

Course Rationale

 How this course is organized

Learn more about your Instructors

(Optional) Religion and Ecology Conferences and Book Series, 1996-1998

 Pre-video introduction: "The Promise of Planetary Health"

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Sunil Amrith, ?Environmental Challenges in India.? Interview by Mary Evelyn Tucker

Prasenjit Duara, ?Indigenous History and Environmental Movements in Asia.? Interview by Mary Evelyn Tucker

Lecture - What is Religion? - Mary Evelyn Tucker

Lecture - Introduction to the Study of Religion and Ecology - John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker

Pre-video introduction: ?Environmental Challenges in India"

India?s Environmental Challenges in 10 Images

How is India dealing with environmental risks and climate change?

Pre-video introduction: ?Indigenous History and Environmental Movements in Asia"

(Optional) Ways to Learn More

Pre-lecture introduction: ?Introduction to the Study of Religion and Ecology?

(Optional) The Movement of Religion and Ecology: Emerging Field and Dynamic Force

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Module 2: Introduction to South Asian Ecological Challenges and Religion and Ecology

Lecture - Religious Ecology in the Vedas: Indus River Valley Civilization - John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker

Lecture - Religious Ecology in the Vedas: Fire, Sacrifice, and Cosmic Order - John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker

Lecture - Religious Ecology in the Vedas: Class, Sound, and Household Ritual - John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker

Lecture - Religious Cosmology in the Upanishads: Introduction - John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker

Lecture - Religious Cosmology in the Upanishads: From Rita to Brahman - John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker

Lecture - Religious Cosmology in the Upanishads: Asramas and Karma - John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker

Lecture - Religious Cosmology in the Upanishads: Renunciation and the Great Self - John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker

Introduction to Vedas

The Importance of Religious Ecology in the Vedas

Selections from Vedic Hymns

Hinduism in ?Faith for Earth: A Call for Action?

(Optional) Ways to Learn More

Introduction to the Upanishads

Religious Cosmology: Interior Sacrifice in the Upanishads

Selections from the Upanishads

Resources on Hinduism and Ecology

(Optional) Ways to Learn More

Module 3: Hinduism and Ecology - From Vedas to Vedanta (Upanishads)

David Haberman, ?Bhakti and Religious Environmentalism for the Yamuna River.? Interview by John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker

Lecture - Purity, Pollution, and Devotion: A Case Study of the Yamuna River - John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker

Lecture - Purity, Pollution, and Devotion: Conference in India - John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker

Lecture - Purity, Pollution, and Devotion: Key Terms and Concepts - John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker

Acharya Shrivasta Goswami, ?Hindu Devotionalism and Religious Ecology at Krishna?s Birthplace.? Interview by John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker

Sunderlal Bahuguna, ?From an Economic to an Ecological Movement?

Introduction to the Bhagavad Gita

Pre-video introduction: ?The Mahabharata?

 (Optional) Learn more about the Mahabharata film adaptation

Selections from the Bhagavad Gita

 Pre-video introduction: ?Bhakti and Religious Environmentalism for the Yamuna River?

 (Optional) Hinduism: Devotional Love of the World

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Water, Wood, and Wisdom: Ecological Perspectives from the Hindu Traditions

Purity, Pollution, and Devotion in Hinduism and Ecology

Goddess of Love

Pre-video introduction: ?Hindu Devotionalism and Religious Ecology at Krishna?s Birthplace?

Pre-video introduction: ?India?s effort to clean up sacred but polluted Ganga River?

Pre-video introduction: ?From an Economic to an Ecological Movement?

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Gandhi?s Agrarian Legacy: Practicing Food, Justice, and Sustainability in India

Why Indian farmers? protests are being called a ?satyagraha?

Pre-video introduction: ?Hinduism on Animals?

Hinduism and Biodiversity

 (Optional): Hinduism and Ecology conference at Govardhan Ecovillage

(Optional) Ways to Learn More

Module 4: Hinduism and Loving Devotion (Bhakti) Toward Nature

Lecture - Introduction to Yoga - John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker

The Yoga Tradition

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

 (Optional) Pre-video introduction: ?Yoga and Ecology?

(Optional) Ways to Learn More

Pre-video introduction: ?Introduction to Jainism?

The Jain Religion in ?Faith for Earth: A Call for Action?

Jainism and Ecology

Their dream is for a world of nonviolence

(Optional) Gandhi and Jainism

(Optional) Jain Literature

 Pre-video introduction: ?Interview on Practice as a Wandering Jain Monk?

 Resources on Jainism and Ecology

(Optional) Ways to Learn More

Pre-video introduction: ?Life of Jain Monks (Glimpses)?

Pre-video introduction: ?Jainism on Animals?

Biodiversity as Reflected in Jainism and the Ways of Its Protection

 (Optional) Jainism and Ecology: Nonviolence in the Web of Life

 (Optional) Ways to Learn More

Module 5: Yoga and Jainism - Detachment from and Affirmation of the World

Lecture - The Life of the Buddha and His Teachings - Mary Evelyn Tucker

Lecture - Diverse Expressions of Buddhism in Art Across Asia - Mary Evelyn Tucker

Jataka Tales: The Birth Story of the Great Monkey

The Buddha triumphing over Mara

(Optional) Pre-video introduction: ?The Story of the Bodhi Tree?

Introduction to the Dhammapada

Selections from ?The Dhammapada?

(Optional) Basic Doctrines of Theravada Buddhism

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Buddhism in ?Faith for Earth: A Call for Action?

 Pre-video introduction: ?Buddhism and Ecology?

(Optional) Buddhism: A Mixed Dharmic Bag: Debates about Buddhism and Ecology

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Module 6: Buddhism and Ecology: The Interdependence of All Reality

Guest Lecture - Religious Ecology in Shantideva's Bodhichary?vat?ra - Matthew Blake

Guest Lecture - Buddhist Agricultural Rituals in Upcountry Sri Lanka - Sam King

Pasang Yangjee Sherpa, ?Climate Change and Food Security in the Himalayas.? Interview by Mary Evelyn Tucker

?Buddhist monk ordains trees to help the environment?

Buddhist Environmental Imaginaries

Pre-video introduction: ?Cambodian Monks ?Ordain? Trees in Anti-Logging Effort?

Resources on Buddhism and Ecology

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Svaha!

Pre-video introduction: ?Moving Beyond the Idea of ?Environment?

Thích Nh?t H?nh on The Practice of Mindfulness

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 Pre-video introduction: ?Animals and the Buddha?

Buddha and the Beasts

Vegetarianism as Practice

Pre-video introduction: ?Climate Change and Food Security in the Himalayas?

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Module 7: Buddhism in Southeast Asia: Engaged Conservation

 Pre-video introduction: ?Sikhism Introduction?

Environmental Theology in Sikhism

Pre-video introduction: ?What does the Sikh tradition have to say about the environment??

The Sikh Religion in ?Faith for Earth: A Call for Action?

Pre-video introduction: ?Sikhism on Animals?

Pre-video introduction: ?Guru Nanak Sacred Forest in Defense to India?s Extreme Pollution?

Resources on Sikhism and Ecology

 (Optional) Ways to Learn More

Bahá?ís of India

Pre-video introduction: ?Behind the Baha?i Faith, one of the fastest growing religions?

The Baha?i Faith in "Faith for Earth: A Call for Action"

Pre-video introduction: "The Baha?i Worldview"

Overview of Baha?i Faith and Ecology

Resources on the Baha?i Faith

(Optional) Ways to Learn More

Module 8: Sikhism and the Baha?i Faith: Unity of Spirit and Matter

Course Conclusion: South Asian Religions & Ecology - Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim

Letter from Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim