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Chapter 33
The Opening Ceremony of Our British Interfaith Ecological Centre
Sarva-Dharma-Sammelana: Religious People Meeting Together used during the opening ceremony of an Interfaith meeting at Bangalore, India, 19-22 August 1993. These may be substituted depending on availability.
Palmer, Martin, Nash, Anne & Hattingh, Ivan, Faith and Nature, London: Century Hutchinson Ltd (WWF), 1987, p.7
Nhat Hahn Thich, 'Earth Gathas' in Dharma Gaia, Ed. Allan Hunt Badiner. Berkeley: Parallax Press: 1990. p.195-7
This information is taken from an interview with a Hindu lady in Leicester with her kind permission.
Quoted in Palmer, op. cit., p.46
'S' is an abbreviated form of the phrase 'Peace be on him' or 'May Allah bless him and grant him peace' which is said by Muslims in Arabic as a sign of respect.
Schimmel, Annemarie, 'The Celestial Garden in Islam'. In The Islamic Garden. Ed. Richard Ettinghausen. Washington: Dumbarton Oaks: 1976, 11.
Philip Pick, Tu Bi Shevat: A happy New Year to all Trees, in Judaism & Ecology, Ed. Aubrey Rose, Cassell, London, 1992, 69.
Quoted in Holm, Jean & Barker, John Attitudes to Nature, Pinto, London, pp. 132-147. Halifax, Joan, 'The Third Body' in Dharma Gaia, Ed Allan Hunt Badiner, Berkeley: Parallax Press, 1990 pp 20-38.
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