Climate Change and Religious Response: The Case of Early Medieval China
T. H. Barrett
The following remarks were originally drafted to serve as the thirty-seventh Evans-Wentz Lecture in Asian Philosophy, Religion and Ethics at Stanford University May 2006, take therefore their tacit point of departure work Walter Y (1878–1965). His Tibetan Book Dead , first published by Oxford Press 1927, long remained most influential account way which Buddhists confronted future mortal beings, though this lecture scope my own inquiry is widened from individual encompass fears concerning transience human society a whole. This broader approach, moreover, allows for degree innovation. Ever since era Evans-Wentz, if not earlier, problem presenting impulses behind traditions unfamiliar those South East Asia without simply confirming apparent ‘exoticism’ has been difficult solve, but over recent years our greatly increased knowledge history planetary environment that we all inhabit offered an unprecedented perspective on widely shared hopes past. because now know times different regions planet subjected events caused same catastrophic upheavals climate. By taking one best known these sixth century CE – information given below no means exhausts what discovered about phenomenon looking its impact terms sense foreboding it engendered, possible trace extent Europe reacted similar ways.
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