Review On Ecological Study In Buddhism

With the beginning of the modern great industry period and with the productive forces' rapid development, Mankind's ability continually be heightened of acquaintance the nature and changing the nature, therefore, the nature's organization and structure have been changed, simultaneously the natural ecosystem's material system also has been changed, and those changes are in order to better meet human's material life conditions. But Humans face difficulties at everywhere and even though meet the penalty from nature, when they are blindly and randomly destroy the nature which depends to surviving. Nowadays, therefore, we have to thinking hardly why humans to be so? Is human knowing themselves insufficiently? Or is human destroying the nature too extremely? A series of this questions, to trace back of the source that it is a value conception in human behavior that have the main effect. How do we have to reverse this kind of value conception?Joseph Needham has said: "In a whole, West's culture which is a conquest the natural culture, this culture necessarily lead to the conflict between human and nature, but Eastern culture especially China's traditional Buddhism culture exactly emphasize the harmony of human and nature. Therefore, If you want to human and nature to be real harmonious that it is must use the Eastern China's traditional culture especially Buddhism culture to be alleviated Western conquest culture." Therefore, this article take the Buddhism culture as a starting point, discusses ecology thought. Thinking this question is from Buddhism's angle.Buddhism has a unique ecological view; believe that the root of ecological environment worsened is due to human's inward desires. So, it must overcome the human's inner desire to solve the difficult problems which cause the ecology worsened day by day , beginning from cognition, building the correct idea. It is the equality and mercy that Buddhism is explained to the human and the nature relationship. This establishment base above on Formation Theory of the Universe, it is just world formation mutual that the human and the world link together, there have any type persons to have any type environments, on the contrary, there have any type environments to have any type persons. The worlds are mutually for the existence condition, they are equality, and existences are all unconditionally equal. Thus the human cannot think themselves as the Master of the world, but should have a mercy's heart to treat every grass, every insect. Then the Buddhism think the basic measure to purify environment, lies in purifying the heart of the people, and uses in it instructing the life practice. Buddha temple is not only the witness of Buddhist pursuing the ecological ideal's world, but is harmonious ecological environment model.