ALLAN G. GRAPARD, one of the world's foremost scholars of Japanese Buddhism, is a former East-West Center Research Fellow, professor of Asian Religions at Cornell, and Social Science Research Council Fellow in Kyoto. He presently is Associate Professor of Religion at the University of California, Santa Barbara. This article first appeared in Deep Ecology, edited by Michael Tobias (Avant Books, 1985) and is reprinted here with the permission of the author.
