Buddhist Economics I: The “Three Poisons” Institutionalized

• Buddhist Perspectives on Nuclear Energy: Section III in Lotus in the Nuclear Sea: Fukushima and the Promise of Buddhism in the Nuclear Age. ed. Jonathan S. Watts (Yokohama: International Buddhist Exchange Center, 2013) available in paperback copy for ¥500
• Various articles by David R. Loy
  • Eco-Dharma: Buddhist Teachings for the Ecological Crisis
  • Can Corporations Become Enlightened? A Buddhist Critique of Transnational Corporations
  • The Religion of Consumption: A Buddhist Perspective
  • The Religion of the Market
  • Buddhism and Poverty
  • The Nonduality of Ecology and Economy
  • Beyond McMindfulness

Buddhist Economics II: Post Capitalist Buddhist Economics, Community Development & Clean Energy

• “Vienna in the Silicon Pure Land” by Dexter Cohen Bohn (October 2023)
  • Part 1: Feeling into the Dharma of Emerging Technology
  • Part 2: Navigating the Wild Wired West
  • Part 3: Reimagining Buddhist Economics
  • Part 4: Making Dharmic Finance Cool

• Jun Nishikawa. “The Choice of Development Paradigms in Japan after the 3/11 Fukushima Nuclear Disaster” in This Precious Life: Buddhist Tsunami Relief and Anti-Nuclear Activism in Post 3/11 Japan. ed.Jonathan S. Watts (Yokohama: International Buddhist Exchange Center, 2013) available in paperback copy for ¥500
• E.F. Schumacher “Buddhist Economics” in Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered, (New York: Harper and Row, 1974)
• Ven. P. A. Payutto. Buddhist Economics A Middle Way for the Market Place (Bangkok: Buddhadhamma Foundation, 1995)

• Buddhadasa Bhikkhu. 1990. Conserving the Inner Ecology.
• Bond, George D. 1996. “A.T. Ariyaratne and the Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement in Sri Lanka.” In Engaged Buddhism: Buddhist Liberation Movements in Asia, edited by Christopher S. Queen and Sallie B. King. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
• Eco-Temple Community Development Project
• Jonathan S. Watts. 2018. Shift the Power: Building a Buddhist Temple Community as a Mechanism for Environmental and Social Change. Updated from “A Futuristic Priest whose Time Has Arrived” (about Rev. Hidehito Okochi) in This Precious Life: Buddhist Tsunami Relief and Anti-Nuclear Activism in Post 3/11 Japan.
• Rev. Hidehito Okochi. 2014. Kenju-in: An Eco-Temple Protecting Forests and Building Health and Longevity through Everyone’s Energy
•  Rev. Hidehito Okochi. 2012. Deconstructing the Myths of Nuclear Energy and Building a Pure Land without Nuclear or Military Presence
• Video Lecture: Depopulation and Regional Development—Reviving local communities through alternative lifestyles based in Buddhism by Rev. Chisa Yamashita (Jodo Pure Land nun; managing director of Amrita Buddhist Social Enterprise) December 17, 2020
• Video Lecture: Environmental Issues and Regional Development—Clean energy and a new financing mechanism using the Buddhist way of making offerings by Rev. Ryogo Takemoto (Jodo Shin Pure Land Hongan-ji priest; TERA Energy co-founder, INEB Eco-Temple Network) December 17, 2020
• Tera Energy: Buddhist Priests Selling Energy to Support Communities & the Maintenance of Temples (Bukkyo Times May 16, 2019 & Mainichi Newspaper October 25, 2018)

• Towards Collective Action: A Buddhist View of Laudato Si by Jonathan S. Watts,a paper prepared for a talk given to the Jesuit Social Center of Tokyo located at Sophia University on October 19, 2016.
• Activist’s self-immolation stirs questions on faith, protest (a Buddhist member of David Loy’s eco-sangha re-engages with the line between violent and non-violent activism) AP News April 26, 2022