THE BUDDHIST INTEGRATED CULTURAL ECOLOGY

Abstract

The study revealed that the concept of cultural ecology is the derived from the anthropology that concerning about the socio-cultural change. It focuses on the environmental influence as the determination of the evolution of social culture. According to the Buddhist concept, the cultural ecology refers to the material and non-material requisites of Buddhist monks that result for living and spiritual development.

The Buddhist ecosystem can be classified into 2 kinds as follows: 1) The Natural Ecosystems – it divides into five categories as (1) Abiotic Natural Ecosystems, (2) Physical Laws, (3) Biotic Natural Ecosystems, (4) Biological Laws and (5) Psychic Laws and 2) The Cultural Ecosystem: it is classified into two systems as (1) the Material Culture Ecosystems and (2) the Non-Material Culture Ecosystems.

According to the model of Buddhist integrated cultural ecology, it is classified into two aspects as 1) the external ecosystem and 2) the internal ecosystems. The external ecosystems refer to the seven beneficial or advantageous conditions and the internal ecosystems refer to the four cultivations. There are two targets of developing viz. physical development and mental development.